At 19:30 02/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:
How about this: Those who were average or with lower acuity to surroundings were eliminated in various pogroms. *If* there was a selective breeding, perhaps it was based on the quickest, smartest most aware were able to move or outwit the killers.
Yes, that must have been a factor, too -- in much the same way that the rich of Baghdad took holidays in Syria while the bombing went on during the invasion. Also, because of the bipolar nature of the Jewish law on usury, the rich merchants would have good contacts with the Gentile establishment in the cities. Just as the rich Jews and intelligentsia were able to get out of Germany in the years before WWII, so might the richer merchants in Russia and Poland, etc have been able to tell their contacts to withdraw from the Jewish villages and ghettos when progroms were being rumoured at high level.
Keith
arthur
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- To: Tor Førde
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- Subject: Re: [Futurework] Selective breeding?
- At 23:18 01/01/2004 +0100, you wrote:
- I was wondering about the theory of Keith Hudson about selective breeding of jews in Eastern Europe.
- It's not a theory of mine. It's an observation from history.
- The aim of selective breeding is to develop a specie who carries some preferred qualities by allowing only those carring these qualities to breed.
- That's what animal breeders do. In western society today anybody can breed. Or, rather, any woman can breed if she finds a male that she thinks will be a good father and provider. Eugenics got a bad name in the last century because the state or medical authorities decided who should breed.
- Where only the most intelligent jews allowed to get children? What about the more ordinary jews, Keith?
- Whoever said that "ordinary" Jews couldn't breed? I didn't say so.
- Keith
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