I firmly believe that the pundits of eugenics played possum, as we say in the USA, for a number of years. What kept this monstrous groundhog underground was the fresh memory of the murderous activities of Hitler and The Third Reich. The story of inhuman sanctioned killing in Germany has a powerful lesson to teach all of us. People in greater numbers have no interest in the past and its lessons for us. When a society and her people forget the past and lose their moral compass hell literally breaks out on earth.
Our society is becoming increasingly nihilistic in its outlook. Victor Frankl survived two stays in the fearsome death camp called Auschwitz. Frankl's words should serve as a wake up call for all us:
"I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers."
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