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>It wasn't even humanity as a whole, but selected individuals.

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>selected individuals

Emphasis mine.

But yeah, The Deathworlders gets way more explicit in its praise for eugenics and fascist military dictatorships - except with the token actual fascist space empire. Those guys are there, it seems, largely to make the fascist military dictatorship of look better by comparison.

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