Our genetic futures : diversify or purify ?

Investing our money as individuals requires we make a fundamental decision between two poles.

Plumb all our figurative investment 'eggs' in one basket that promises high returns quickly ------ but might possibly deliver high losses instead.

Or diversify into different stocks and asset groups for lower returns that are pretty well locked in for the long term.

As a species or as a culture we must make a similar decision regarding our eggs, but literally not figuratively: our collective genetic eggs.

Eugenicists advocated that society should gamble (concentrate is the preferred term on the stock market) on its genetic eggs  by purifying the gene pool down to its most 'fit' elements.

Christians have traditionally argued that we should diversify our genetic investments as widely as possible, to include all of God's creatures, no matter how physically or mentally or emotionally 'deformed' they appear.

Ironically today many people in America who say they are not Christian hold the traditional Christian view while many people who say they are Christian do not.

I am think of the difference between many of Clinton supporters versus many of Trump supporters on issues of black, gay, women and immigrant rights.

The battle between Henry Dawson and Howard Florey over wartime penicillin - who makes it and  who gets it - was a battle between diversifying or purifying, the world's biggest and most enduring intellectual divide since about the end of the US Civil War...