It is my strongly held opinion that W. D. Hamilton is correct in “Innate Social Aptitudes of Man” when he asserts:

...civilization probably slowly reduces its altruism of all kinds, including the kinds needed for cultural creativity…

Moreover it is my strongly held opinion that it is self-evident that the meaning of life is joy of creation. Therefore I have put forth one proposal to reverse civilization’s dysgenic attack on the meaning of life.

Others disagree and they might desire to come forth with critiques of my proposal, as have so many pseudonymous and anymous critics.

However, no one—and I mean NO ONE—has yet come forth with their own proposals for eugenics programs that are not reducible to a vague wish-list.

I therefore invite you to propose your operational definition of a eugenics program you see as desirable. Please keep anything that smacks of a critique or wish-list to a minimum and, if you can, stated separately so it can be noted as a “goal” or “digression” from the primary purpose of the thread.

Wikipedia’s intro to Operational Definition is reasonable:

An operational definition defines something (e.g. a variable, term, or object) in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity. That is, one defines something in terms of the operations that count as measuring it. The term was coined by Percy Williams Bridgman and is a part of the process of Operationalization. One might use definitions that rely on operations in order to avoid the troubles associated with attempting to define things in terms of some intrinsic essence.

The operational definition seeks not “what” (essence) but “how” (operation). Think of the opposite of the 3-wishes myth—the 3-wishes myth which allows the genie or leprechaun or whatever granting the wish to fulfill the wish in undesirable ways not anticipated by the wisher.