deception is not the answer because inevitably they will figure out the trick. you need to offer them an alternative they will like (glory in war is usually good). i do think we need an active eugenics program for the bottom ~5-7%, but this is because modern medicine has taken away the negative pressure of natural infant deaths, which would remove unwanted genes. an increase in quality is fine if there is a quantity sufficient enough so that deleterious genes do not become so widespread that not even an infinite increase in quality would save the population.
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