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One more aside before we tackle these four questions: I actually agree that most people at bottom really are eugenicists even when they condemn the nomenclature. I wouldn’t be surprised if something like 70% of Americans would (and do) accept eugenic principles and laws as long as no one shocks them by using the poisoned word. Eugenics, as a word, is a failed euphemism; in fact, it has become the opposite of a euphemism, for it is a word we do not say aloud lest the very whisper of it stop its continued progress.