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To: RegulatorCountry

Hi, I'm no authority on anything of which I speak, just of an opinion and sharing it. Man is a moral animal, unlike the rest of the"creation". Therefore man can skew the selection process into an immoral situation.


272 posted on 08/23/2006 8:43:43 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
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To: ThirstyMan

"Therefore man can skew the selection process into an immoral situation."

Nazism's murderous efforts at creating a "master race," and the attempted extermination of those determined by Nazis (and eugenics advocates) as "human weeds" is the prime, and perhaps only pertinent example of this. Darwin included bits from his nephew Galton's so-called social Darwinist theories in "The Descent Of Man," and was apparently enthused about it, from what I've read. But, social Darwinism and eugenics were discredited at some point during the twentieth century, and that point was immediately post-WWII. The timing is no coincidence, as far as any connection between Darwinism and Nazism is concerned.


279 posted on 08/23/2006 10:21:19 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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