I know, right?     With that said, it's not the only case:  Much ink is spilled trying to discredit eugenics.  We are told horror story after horror story.  And yet Graves agrees with the basic premise of eugenics, for he writes:  If individuals who would normally die without intervention reproduce, and their condition is heritable, the frequency of the genetic malady in the human species will increase (pg. 76).  His objections to eugenics seem to be threefold:  That there have been great abuses in the past (agreed), that eugenics has historically used social/economic class as a proxy for genetic fitness (pg. 113), and that any intervention on our part would take tens of thousands of years to make a dent in our genetic footprint (pg. 114).  But what Graves is doing is throwing out the baby with the bath water.  Eugenics is successfully practiced by Ashkenazi Jews in order to reduce the risk of Tay-Sachs disease.  Many women choose to abort their mongoloid babies rather than give birth to them.  Graves appears to define eugenics as “any crime that has been committed to improve the genetic fitness of the human race”.  If so, who can argue with him?  let us, instead, define eugenics as any policies taken to reduce the burden/suffering caused by genetic defects upon human society.  I have personally seen three generations of retards living at a group home – at tremendous cost to society.  Those retards are not borderline retarded, who might be considered “dull”.  No, they are bonafide, drooling, pinheads who absolutely cannot function on their own.  Who, in his right mind, would be in favor of perpetuating such a family?  Graves avoids the hard questions, instead resorting to equating eugenicists with Nazis (pg. 127).  We even find him saying:  The tragedy of Nazi Germany stands as the clearest example of what can happen if eugenics, racial hierarchy, and social Darwinism are taken to their logical conclusions (pg. 128).  It is difficult to understand how the extermination of Jews, who were among the brightest and most successful in Germany, is a “logical conclusion” of eugenics.  And that's not all, just ask Hotwheelz or Crawlerz2468.