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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] Social Dawrinism has been a boil on humanity's butt ever since it was conceived. Basically, it presumes that Darwinian pressures select powerful cultures to dominate the weaker ones. As far as that goes, I suppose it's correct. Where it gets (at the very least) annoying is where it justifies anything you (or your government, or your "crowd") do as long as it gains you power and control over others. If they were not the strongest, they (whoever "they" is this week) would have been able to prevent it, therefore they deserve whatever you do to them. As a matter of fact, it's your duty to your group to do whatever you can to subjugate others, as this will prevent them from doing it to you first. It's the opposite of the "Golden Rule". I suppose this makes it the "shit" rule? It all boils down to "Might [i]is[/i] right". If I were to adhere to this philosophy, I would promote mandatory euthanasia for the elderly, weak and crippled, or anyone else who was a "drain" on society's resources. "Grandma's in the rest home? It's a waste of resources. Give her the injection." Under Social Darwinism, Stephen Hawking would have been disposed of long before he had anything significant to say to the physics community and Grandma Moses would have been eliminated before she took up painting. Social Darwinism has been used (not always under that banner) to promote such things as racial segregation and the forcible sterilization of habitual criminals and "idiots" during the 1920s in the U.S. It is the basis of the Nazi belief that the Aryan race had the right to subjugate and destroy all others because they had the power to do so. Social Darwinism, when examined closely, is a sociopathic philosophy. It is the ultimate expression of self-interest to the exclusion of all other considerations. It is a manifestation of evil. --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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