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Eugenics in Canada
Most of the discussion around eugenics has been about the planned evolution of humanity. Designer babies and the elimination of genetic defects and diseases. But there is also the other end of eugenics, thinning the herd, eliminating defective and undesirables from society.
This week, the Canadian government released its fourth annual report on medically assisted dying in Canada, finding that 13,241 people were killed by the medical systems, making it #5 on the hit parade’s top ways to die in 2022.
World War Two was… a war, right? (Cackle.) On one side was England, the United States and Russia. Only then Russia was called the “Soviet Union.” On the other side was Germany and Japan. Oh, and Italy (cackle). Love Italian food. Love it. (Cackle.) Anyway, some countries like Ukraine were caught in the middle. Some Ukrainians sided with Russia and some Ukrainians sided with Germany. The Russians were communists and the Germans were fascists (cackle). So it was sort of like choosing between fat or carbs, amirite? (Cackle.)
“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seeks an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”
