>>7734957Yes, but the creation of useful, valuable alloys requires intimate knowledge of the properties of each constituent part of the alloy, as well as their properties when mixed together. This would represent a eugenics program, if we keep to the metaphors.
If you just dump a bunch of metal in a bucket and melt it down willy-nilly, you'll only end up with shitty pig iron that's barely fit to hold two pieces of wood together. That's what you'll have by allowing individuals to determine their own mates--as is done now in most of the civilized world--since the average person isn't going to be forward thinking enough to ask their lover for a full family history before they fire a bunch of kids into each other.
