![]() ![]() ![]() They typically state that We Have Become Complacent and stupid, and want to remove "weakness" and "stupidity" from society. Such characters rarely concede that their chances for survival may have started higher than others due to reasons such as inherited wealth or social prestige. To the Social Darwinist, all life is a struggle for survival in which the strongest naturally prosper at the expense of the weak - and it is right and natural that they should do so because that's just the way things are, and/or natural law is Above Good and Evil. Or they may just advocate ideas that are associated with this, though not invoking evolution (Darwinian or not) itself. The Social Darwinist is someone who believes that the Darwinian theory of evolution - i.e., "survival of the fittest", to oversimplify it - should be applied to people, and sometimes entire societies or nations. ![]()
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