Some forms of infanticide in ancient societies, present-day reprogenetics, preemptive abortions and designer babies have been (sometimes controversially) referred to as eugenic.
The designers of these circuits based them on the same concept: a fully integrated, single-die-IC switching regulator and a micropower operational amplifier.
User goals are not the only type of goals that designers need to take into account. Customer goals, business goals, and technical goals are all nonuser goals.