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To: gore3000
So Darwin was not PC? "Social Darwinism" was quite a fad up until WWII. But does the misuse of an idea make it invalid? If so, religion of every stripe is in big trouble.
135 posted on 03/27/2002 5:32:30 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
So Darwin was not PC? "Social Darwinism" was quite a fad up until WWII. But does the misuse of an idea make it invalid? If so, religion of every stripe is in big trouble.

Didn't Hitler get his idea for the treatment of the retarded from one of the U.S. states; Gorgia, I think

138 posted on 03/27/2002 6:03:18 AM PST by Quila
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To: js1138
"So Darwin was not PC? "Social Darwinism" was quite a fad up until WWII. But does the misuse of an idea make it invalid?"

You are absolutely wrong. Social Darwinism was not the misuse of Darwinian theory, it was putting Darwinian theory into action:

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
Darwin, "The Descent of Man", Chapter V.

That's your boy speaking, not social darwinists, not creationists, but your man himself, the immoral, the racist, the mysogenist Charles Darwin. And all the quotes given to you are not just a peripheral part of his theory but an essential part of his theory.

214 posted on 03/27/2002 6:17:45 PM PST by gore3000
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