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The problem is that this is just rephrasing "survival of the fittest," a concept misappropriated from evolutionary theory into societal planning numerous times by despots, and which - to my mind - has no place in a society mindful of its incomplete information about what constitutes "fittest."



It's not like "unfit" people are being left to die. They are just encouraged to live normal real lives instead of young-adult-novel lives.




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