"...maybe read a few books pertaining to history, current events, philosophy, etc..."

Yeah, read some books. Hitler's Mien Kampf comes to mind. Here's another, lesser known gem: "Woman and the New Race", by birth control advocate and Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger.  

Sanger states, it isn't just numbers of babies that matters, but the KIND of children born.  "Birth control itself ... is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."

One author: regarded a despicable psychopath.  One author: seen as a admirable heroine.