Re: What is "compassionate eugenics" ..

Compassionate eugenics is exactly what is occurring on the planet.  We are controlling ourselves.  World population is in an implosion - self imposed.  (Except possibly for China where the government is controlling population growth - but that presents some really weird problems too.)  The "population explosion" of the past few decades has not been caused by reproduction, but by better healthcare world wide and the advent of more people surviving to a much older age.  In 1950 only one black African child made it to age ten.  Today from what I can find out it is now about nine out of ten make it to age ten.  In 1948 - the year that the Communists took over China, the average life expectancy there was twenty seven years.  Today it is around seventy.  In spite of everything you see on curezone, health care for everyone - including those in the United States, has improved and our life expectancy is much longer.  We are in a population decline due to personal choice.  Italy's population will decline by half by the year 2050.  More and more Italian 'boys' are living with their parents and never marry.  Marriage everywhere is no longer an ultimate goal for many.

http://www.overpopulation.org/older.html

Europe's population is expected to decrease from 728 million now to 658 million by 2050, due to declining birth rates. June 8, 2000 ENN/AP 

February 15, 2000 CNA Mainland China Facing Aging Population Problem.  Due to its one-child policy, China's number of elderly people may triple from 130 million to 400 million over the next five years, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Currently one young person in mainland China supports an average of four elderly people.February 15, 2000 CNA

About 1780, about the time of Malthus' dire predicitons, families in Europe began cutting back the number of children they had, raising fewer children not because of disease or famine but because they chose to - perhaps because more children were more expensive to raise, and when city life and education became a factor, fewer children meant a better life for the family. But, like braking a speeding train, slowing population growth doesn't happen all at once. June 21, 2000 Christian Science Monitor