![]() People who rise to the top in the human environment aka society, by whatever means, can consider themselves superior to others - even going so far as to praise the evils of over-ambitiousness and condemn kind behavior. This first type believes that the scientific absolutism of natural selection puts them in zero accountability to God, the State, or any other moral code. The Straw Meritocrat: Basically a Straw Nihilist or Hollywood Atheist without the overt craziness.If they do talk about evolution, they are very likely to talk about Evolutionary Levels and Goal-Oriented Evolution rather than Darwin's actual theory (which was more of a pass-fail concept).įictional Social Darwinists generally come in six major flavors: It may seem to some that because humans aren't currently having wars/disaster and humans aren't endangered as a species, evolution in humans has ceased altogether. They typically state that We Have Become Complacent and stupid, and want to remove "weakness" and "stupidity" from society. Such characters rarely concede that their chances for survival may have started higher than others due to reasons such as inherited wealth or social prestige. To the Social Darwinist, all life is a struggle for survival in which the strongest naturally prosper at the expense of the weak - and it is right and natural that they should do so because that's just the way things are, and/or natural law is Above Good and Evil. ![]() Or they may just advocate ideas that are associated with this, though not invoking evolution (Darwinian or not) itself. ![]() ![]() The Social Darwinist is someone who believes that the Darwinian theory of evolution - i.e., "survival of the fittest", to oversimplify it - should be applied to people, and sometimes entire societies or nations. ![]()
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