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A religion with high standards for members is effectively doing evolutionary selection for its group based on these standards. Most religions encourage in-group breeding. Good religions encourage monogamy which is eugenic and discourage promiscuity which is dysgenic. Monogamy selects for responsible parenting while promiscuity selects for immoral behavior through Fisherian selection. I wrote a long post about these ideas here:

http://www.mikraite.org/Human-Evolution-tp17.html

Religion is the only practical solution. Political solutions are simply not practical. But a small group of people could form a eugenic religion.

A religion with high standards for members is effectively doing evolutionary selection for its group based on these standards. Most religions encourage in-group breeding. Good religions encourage monogamy which is eugenic and discourage promiscuity which is dysgenic. Monogamy selects for responsible parenting while promiscuity selects for immoral behavior through Fisherian selection. I wrote a long post about these ideas here: http://www.mikraite.org/Human-Evolution-tp17.html Religion is the only practical solution. Political solutions are simply not practical. But a small group of people could form a eugenic religion.

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Religion is the only practical solution. Political solutions are simply not practical.

Not quite. We can't just have a religion and no kind of political arrangement. Even lacking a state is a political arrangement.

But a small group of people could form a eugenic religion.

I suppose though a narrow gene pool could be rather unfortunate.

Also, you may want to think about inbreeding a bit more. This is satirical, but it still contains good information about the effects of inbreeding and outbreeding. As for your plan, I'll write a review post about it: I feel it deserves a good response because it's an effortpost.

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I am not saying that politics shouldn't exist. I am just saying that politics won't work well for eugenics.

A small eugenic religion would have people joining and leaving, so the gene pool wouldn't be narrow.