Germany adopted a sterilization law in 1933, which made people with such hereditary disabilities as Huntington's Corea, feeble-mindedness, blindness and deafness, grave bodily deformity, and hereditary alcoholism subject to forced sterilization for the good of the people (Lifton 301). ... A related problem is that what traits a culture values are not fixed. ...

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Consequently, Germany adopted a sterilization law in 1933, which made feeble-minded, blind/deaf, and persons with hereditary diseases such as Huntington's disease, subject to forced sterilization for the good of the people (Lifton et al. 1994). ... However, the traits a culture values and finds favorable are not fixed; these traits change with the nature of the economy and technology as well as fashion. ...

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