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From journals and books?
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I see.
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You referred to:
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"Novel National Socialist
measures introduced...
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"among them sexual sterilization. "
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Are you aware that sexual sterilization
was not invented by National Socialism...
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but had been advanced for years before
as a weapon...
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in dealing with the mentally incompetent
and the criminal?
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Yes. I am aware of that.
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Are you aware that it has advocates
among leading citizens in other countries?
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I am not an expert on such laws.
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Then permit me to read one to you.
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This is a High Court opinion...
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upholding such laws in existence
in another country.
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And I quote:
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"We have seen more than once
that the public welfare...
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"may call upon the best citizens
for their lives.
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"It would be strange indeed,
if it could not call upon those...
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"who already sapped the strength
of the state for these lesser sacrifices...
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"in order to prevent our being swamped
by incompetence.
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"It is better for all the world...
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"if, instead of waiting to execute
degenerate offsprings for crime...
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"or to let them starve for their imbecility,
society can prevent their propagation...
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"by medical means in the first place.
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"Three generations of imbeciles
are enough. "
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Do you recognize it now, Dr. Wieck?
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No, sir, I don't.
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Actually, there is no particular reason
you should...
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since the opinion upholds
the sterilization law...
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in the State of Virginia,
of the United States...
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and was written and delivered
by that great American jurist...
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Supreme Court Justice,
Oliver Wendell Holmes.