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originally posted in: Capitalism is Social Darwinism.
5/26/2014 9:30:11 PM
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How, exactly?
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  • Edited by Sane Man: 5/26/2014 9:38:39 PM
    Well it's pretty simple. Social Darwinism, based on the ideas of Natural Selection and "survival of the fittest", attempts to apply Darwin's findings to human sociology and politics. You know this, of course, but people reading this thread might not. Capitalism, at least to me, is a pretty good example of this. In an ideal capitalist system, products, businesses and services compete for consumers, in much the same way lifeforms compete reproductively. The products that are inferior, that consumers don't want, fail, while the things consumers do desire bring in a profit. Obviously things are more complex than that, you have to consider R&D costs and the like, but the basic principles are pretty similar.

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  • Okay, I can agree to that. I just wanted to make sure we were on the same level when it came to the concept of social darwinism. My question, therefore, is so what?

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  • Edited by Sane Man: 5/26/2014 9:45:50 PM
    To be completely honest I just want to see how certain users in particular (I won't list names) respond. This forum is full of people who are both heavily conservative in regards to economic policy, and very religious. They get really mad or just cry "bait" when I say things like "Jesus would be a socialist", so I'm interested in seeing how they respond when I compare [i]something else[/i] they cream themselves over to [i]something else[/i] they've been taught to hate from an early age.

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  • As far as I see it, there's absolutely nothing wrong with social darwinism as long as it's left to voluntary and individual association. Once the State comes in and starts dictating who's better, that's when it gets messed up.

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  • With the "Survival of the fittest" concept.

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  • Edited by Bong Cognition: 5/26/2014 9:32:38 PM
    I wasn't asking you.

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  • Well then... Okay...

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