Many historical records of eugenics provide such a science as the risk of leaving science, especially genetics without control, but there is a much greater example of the risk of leaving governments out of control.
The solution in Thomas Jefferson's argument: I do not know a safe depository for absolute powers of society other than the people themselves. If we think that people are not enlightened enough to exercise this control with full sanity, the cure is not to rob them of this control, but to be rational.
Perhaps the clearest thing the book brings to it is knowing how ignorant we are and interpreting what happens to us from disease, death, growth, behavior, attitudes, thinking and choices, as if we are learning, reading and looking to know our ignorance and not to know, or as science is the knowledge of ignorance.
The solution in Thomas Jefferson's argument: I do not know a safe depository for absolute powers of society other than the people themselves. If we think that people are not enlightened enough to exercise this control with full sanity, the cure is not to rob them of this control, but to be rational.
Perhaps the clearest thing the book brings to it is knowing how ignorant we are and interpreting what happens to us from disease, death, growth, behavior, attitudes, thinking and choices, as if we are learning, reading and looking to know our ignorance and not to know, or as science is the knowledge of ignorance.
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