by Krantarin » Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:08 pm
... OK, weird thread, but I have one thing to say: your idea of Social Darwinism is incorrect. Social Darwinism isn't committing suicide because you're mentally unfit. That's normal Darwinian evolution--it has nothing to do with society or humanity anymore than a lemming running off a cliff. Social Darwinism is the idea that the smartest will get richest, and the poor are the dumb ones so when they starve it's a good thing. It was used by 1800's Railroad Moguls and other monopolizers to rationalize hoarding millions and being stingy even though they have plenty to give. It's an outdated idea. It has nothing to do with this thread.
I'm done now.
A Lurker from the days when Laketown was on the frontier and Bottleneck was the military superpower.