The Noble Lie

The ethical system which will dominate the world state will be shaped primarily to favor beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and to check the procreation of base and servile types.  The new ethics will hold life to be a privilege and a responsibility, and the alternative in right conduct between living fully, beautifully, and efficiently will be to die.  The men of the New Republic will have little pity and less benevolence.  They will hold that a certain portion of the population exists only on sufferance and on the understanding that they do not propagate, and I do not foresee any reason to suppose that they will not hesitate to kill when that sufferance is abused.  The men of the New Republic will not be squeamish ether in facing or inflicting death.  They will have an ideal that will make killing worth the while.  They will have the faith to kill.  If deterrent punishments are used at all in the code of the future the deterrent will be good scientifically-caused pain.