(22 October 2012, 13:23)bigpaul Wrote: (22 October 2012, 12:43)Rupert Wrote: If there was nuclear strike then social darwinism would be the order of the day.
i thought darwinism was survival of the fittest...please explain "social" darwinism??
Somebody on here had a very good sig with a quote from Darwin along the lines of "It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the fittest or most intelligent, it is the one the is the most adaptable to change". Which is a much more accurate definition than the commonly thought "survival of the fittest".
Anyway, social darwinism is probably more accurately described as "survival of the fittest", but amongst groups rather than individuals.
ie. the group that were smart enough to make fire outlive the group who freeze to death.
Or the group that were smart enough to move to where the soil is fertile live better lives than those who stay in the African deserts for millenia...
But of course, "social darwinism" is racist, because it's racist to imply that the world is anything but full of people who are 100% equal to each other in every way
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