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Originally posted by prosequence
This leaves me much to think about... that ol' Darwin.
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Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural selection was never about ethics. It was never about what is right or wrong. It was an attempt to explain how the complexity of living things arose.
Social Darwinism is nothing to do with Darwin, no more than scientology has anything to do with science.
The natural world is cruel and harsh. We as a species have evolved beyond the natrual anarchy, in our attempts to create a society.
If you want to learn more about this I would suggest the following books:
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Evolution of Cooperation by Robert M. Axelrod. (not really about biological evolution, rather it is a mathematical look at the prisoner's dillema)
and also check out this thread:
Human emotion\motives figured out
If you are using "evolution isn't ethical" as your disproof, then you are simply waaay off the mark.