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sunwerten Lebens (The Release of the Destruction of Life Devoid
of Value). Their book claimed that the sick and handicapped

were a burden both to themselves and to society, that killing
them would be no great loss, that the cost of keeping such "use-
less" individuals alive was very high, and that the state could
spend that money in more productive areas. As a solution, they
proposed killing the physically and mentally handicapped, and
demanded that the religious and legal obstacles be lifted. 126 One
of Hoche's irrational assumptions was that the moral values
concerning the protection of life would soon disappear, and the
elimination of "unnecessary" life would be essential to society's
survival. 127
To have a clearer grasp of just how terrifying that recom-
mendation was, consider if you found yourself in a society
where these proposed models were actually practiced. What if
your deaf sister, your blind mother, your psychologically dis-
turbed grandfather, your lame grandmother, or aging father
were taken away for death before your very eyes, in the name of

science and for the benefit of society? No doubt you would
understand that there was nothing scientific whatsoever about
the murder of people you love. You would have no difficulty
seeing these claims as the result of a diseased mentality. Such
barbarity would inflict indescribable suffering on you and
everyone you know. Such suffering was indeed experienced in
many societies, especially in Nazi Germany, and murders in the
hysteria of eugenics left deep wounds in the conscience of soci-
ety.
The efforts made by evolutionists to ignore or forget the
scale of these depravities are ultimately doomed to failure. No
matter how they seek to cover them up, the facts are clear.
Humanity experienced terrible suffering and grave losses on

account of the ideological foundations laid by Darwinism.

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