Eugenics

I went to a lecture tonight at the Texas Tech Museum http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/ about Eugenics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics, in conjunction with the Deadly Medicine Exhibit http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/. The lecture centered around the Buck vs. Bell http://buckvbell.com/ legal case in the United States Supreme Court.

This was a case regarding the sterilization of "less than desirable people." (My quotes.) The United States Supreme Court upheld the decision. 

These things have more or less gone away, but have they?  I can not write the kinds of things that people still think.  It turns my stomach. I just know that we need to be sure we do not give up our rights, and we need to help protect the rights of the disenfranchised, less desirables of our society, or we will end up in a situation like Nazi Germany. (Is that too extreme? I hope not.)

In the guise of anti-terrorist detection, airport screening by TSA ( the Transportation Security Administration http://www.tsa.gov/) has included very intrusive random pat searches. These have caused much outrage in the public, and TSA has responded. They are making some revisions, but keeping some procedures in tact. Some would say the TSA procedures demean human life.

Human life is valuable.  All human life is valuable. No matter how flawed, no matter what way it may be flawed, human life is valuable.  When we behave otherwise in our societies, we are decreased as humans.

We have an obligation to ensure that no matter the circumstance and situation, we place the value of human life first.  There are so many situation of which I can conceive that I may act as if human life was not primary, but it would be for survival of self or another, and weighing the greater good.   So, human life is valuable.