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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Read their writings, listen to their ravings. They were very much social darwinists.

Social darwinism is an idiotic attempt to apply a biological mechanism to politics. The arguments for social darwinism have nothing to do with biological evolution, because social darwinism is a complete misapplication of the theory and I strongly suspect that many of its proponents are merely trying to persuade the ignorant of the 'merits' of such a system by exploiting their lack of understanding of evolutionary biology and its proper applications. I ask again, what arguments for evolution can you provide to support your assertion?

Social darwinism is no more an argument against evolution than the September 11, 2001 attack is an argument against religion.
120 posted on 05/02/2003 12:39:51 PM PDT by Dimensio (Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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To: Dimensio
But my entire point was that socialists tend more towards the Darwinian point of view, while capitalists do not.
128 posted on 05/02/2003 12:42:54 PM PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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