Yes, let’s practice eugenics! BBC story here.
We all know to what extremes eugenics was eventually taken, don’t we? Shades of Quentin Hogg, and, well, you-know-who.
He claims he’s matured, and since the brain only finishes maturing at 25, it’s possible. But it’s more probable he’s an idiot and a tosser.
I buy it. There’s some things I wrote online at least 10 years ago I know can be used against me nowadays. Sometimes the popular prevailing opinion of the time becomes not-so-popular.
Quit being so incredibly stupid, and quit slandering people. If you had bothered to actually read the article you linked to, you would know that he was talking about matters of money, nothing else.
Apparently you feel that it’s a bad thing for politicians to be responsible with the taxpayers’ money.
Funnily enough, I did read the article. And funnily enough, I do believe in personal responsibility. But vasectomies are not free - the funding has to come from somewhere - and are not always reversible. Had he encouraged the use of condoms, that would be a different matter, but we in Europe have a rather nasty history of enforced sterilisation and worse. Maybe you are unaware of it?
Except this was in 2012, not 1912. Forced sterilization of some undesired class has been anathema for the better part of a century. It was not remotely “the opinion of the times.”
I’m less bothered by that than I am about the recently-revealed activities of Toby Young and James Thompson: UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus.
Bradley’s views on “eugenics” are born of casual ignorance and general tone-deafness. Thompson’s stem from active malevolence.
Considering the MP wasn’t alive in 1912, that rules your assertion out if you want to continue being unnecessarily pedantic.
I certainly wouldn’t “force” it on anyone but I definitely think that people shouldn’t have more children than they can afford to raise and education on contraceptive methods should be front and centre in any state-funded schools system.