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To: ffusco
The kind of Social Darwinism you discuss was the rationalization for the Holocaust.

Social Darwinism was formed by people not as smart as I, because I realize it is not that easy--possibly even impossible--for mankind to anticipate which genes endow someone with superior survival traits.

For example, I can see a good argument that any genetic tendency toward a high IQ is possibly as inferior as one toward a low IQ.

I wouldn't measure the success of mental functioning by IQ at all.

I'd measure it by how well a person's brain works in concert with that person's gonads--at least as far as to what was most fit in prior generations.

As for fitness in future generations--that MIGHT be another story.

249 posted on 02/11/2004 10:12:26 AM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
Good one! A of R
250 posted on 02/11/2004 10:14:30 AM PST by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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