Modern university ethics most certainly will have eugenics built into them. It’s a foundational aspect of the imperial core’s ideology.
Modern western ethics have its root on utilitarianism, which is basically a philosophy made by the ruling class to answer the question "what is the minimum amount of food our serfs need, really?". That's why the history of ethics instead of being a history of improving goodness, instead is a history of blunting its inherent horribleness.
"Fine, maybe we shouldn't torture people"
"Fine, maybe neurodivergents are people too"
"Fine, maybe we shouldn't do psychopathic serial killer shit on animals... just a little bit maybe? Pretty please?"
"People will ruin the commons because everyone cares only for their own gain, which is why control of the world's environment and resources needs to be in the hands of corporations each of which has no goal but to maximize its own profit"
the commons were well regulated initially what happened was around the time of the industrial revolution rich people especially the new bourgeoise class used their wealth and access to all the armed bodies of men they had lying around and stole shit and ignored the regulations. The tragedy of the commons rests on a historically inaccurate model of common ownership where everyone is free to do as they please
they then built a bunch of fences around the land they stole from everybody else and the law said it was theirs now
Ymmv but my most recent university ethics class was basically to drill into biologists “Eugenics is bad don’t do it”
The more concerning part was that they tried to instill in us that it’s good and right to waste resources and even animal lives to protect the “confidentiality” of someone whose paper was submitted for peer review.
I had an ethics class that told us that negligence in designing safety features was very bad and we shouldn't do it. something about someone might get hurt
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They'll just pivot to the good ol' "uncivilized savages breeding like rabbits" racism
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Modern western ethics have its root on utilitarianism, which is basically a philosophy made by the ruling class to answer the question "what is the minimum amount of food our serfs need, really?". That's why the history of ethics instead of being a history of improving goodness, instead is a history of blunting its inherent horribleness.
"Fine, maybe we shouldn't torture people"
"Fine, maybe neurodivergents are people too"
"Fine, maybe we shouldn't do psychopathic serial killer shit on animals... just a little bit maybe? Pretty please?"
I was assigned Garrett Hardin in three different philosophy classes at two different universities.
This guy: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
it's hard to believe the tragedy of the commons is taken seriously as an argument when we literally had commons that worked fine for hundreds of years
"People will ruin the commons because everyone cares only for their own gain, which is why control of the world's environment and resources needs to be in the hands of corporations each of which has no goal but to maximize its own profit"
the commons were well regulated initially what happened was around the time of the industrial revolution rich people especially the new bourgeoise class used their wealth and access to all the armed bodies of men they had lying around and stole shit and ignored the regulations. The tragedy of the commons rests on a historically inaccurate model of common ownership where everyone is free to do as they please
they then built a bunch of fences around the land they stole from everybody else and the law said it was theirs now
"What if the tragedy of the commons was our entire ideology?"
Ymmv but my most recent university ethics class was basically to drill into biologists “Eugenics is bad don’t do it”
The more concerning part was that they tried to instill in us that it’s good and right to waste resources and even animal lives to protect the “confidentiality” of someone whose paper was submitted for peer review.
I had an ethics class that told us that negligence in designing safety features was very bad and we shouldn't do it. something about someone might get hurt
If you're interested in the way that Eugenics has scaffolded the entire fields of biology and ecology, the book Ghost Stories for Darwin is fantastic.