The Story of Different Minds  ·  Eugenics

Unfit Lives

How eugenics created categories of people treated as threats.

The darkest idea was that some lives should not continue.

Simple version

Eugenics framed disabled and neurodivergent people as biological or social problems to prevent.

Why it matters

It used official language to make exclusion, sterilisation and violence sound rational.

Awareverse lens

Awareverse names this as the opposite of its mission. Human worth is not conditional.

Question to ask

When looking at unfit lives, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?

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