[Old Professer]

What if the least fit survive? Take man for example. We strive hard to keep even the weakest members of our species alive. We let drug addicts reproduce. As a species we certainly don't practice let the fittest survive. We let people like Saddam, cowardly mean people ascend to positions of power.

Darwin addressed that by saying that society was fatal to to his theory due to what he termed "misplaced compassion," he actually was forecasting a sort of evolutionary confusion where no real progress could occur.

I believe it was his cousin who came up with the notion of social evolution as a means of explaining class structure, but society stood ready to do battle with that then as well as now; so we wait.

[PatrickHenry]

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