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Re: You are both confused.

Posted by Paul Younan (Guest) - Sunday, September 12 2004, 16:22:26 (CEST)
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Jeff, in case you are still confused and uneducated about the topic: (Next time research more carefully before you shoot your mouth off at someone who is far more intelligent than yourself.)

http://www.progressivehumanism.com/undevltn.html

A school of thought led by Herbert Spencer, an influential contemporary of Darwin's, held that some people were naturally superior to others, and that the perfection of the species required that the inferior ones bite the dust, leaving the future of humanity to their betters. This theory merged conveniently with aspects of nineteenth-century capitalism to justify economic policies sacrificing social welfare in favor of rampant capitalism and the rich getting ever richer. Traces of that thinking persist in one form or another to this day[3].

Another version of "Social Darwinism" misapplied ongoing studies of the individual races of mankind to claim that certain groups were superior. This line of thinking provided a pseudo-intellectual underpinning to the racist doctrines of the Nazis and thereby contributed to that blot on humanity's record, the Holocaust [4].

These misapplications of evolutionary theory have made it difficult for contemporary observers to think objectively about competition between culturally identified groups and how that competition has affected the course of humanity's social evolution since the dawn of history. One social scientist has noted, for example, that "...there is as yet no generally accepted evolutionary explanation for human social complexity..." [5]. The paper goes on to postulate that "...the use of culture to erect symbolic barriers between groups can account for ethnocentrically limited altruism that underpins social organization...".

-Paul

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to all of you who thought... parhad - Saturday, September 11 2004, 21:50:25 (CEST)
- Re: to all of you who thought... Paul Younan - 09/11 21:58
  - Re: to all of you who thought... Shushan - 09/12 02:04
  - Re: to all of you who thought... Jeff - 09/12 08:21
    - Re: to all of you who thought... Paul Younan - 09/12 15:57
      - Re: to all of you who thought... Shushan - 09/12 16:12
        You are both confused. Paul Younan - 09/12 16:16
        Re: You are both confused. Shushan - 09/12 16:19
        Re: You are both confused. Shushan - 09/12 16:21
        
        Re: You are both confused. Paul Younan - 09/12 16:23
        
        Re: You are both confused. Paul Younan - 09/12 16:22
        Re: You are both confused. Shushan - 09/12 16:27
        Re: You are both confused. Paul Younan - 09/12 16:32
        Re: You are both confused. Shushan - 09/12 16:36
        Re: You are both confused. Paul Younan - 09/12 16:46
        
        Re: You are both confused. Jeff - 09/12 19:42
        
        Re: to all of you who thought... Shushan - 09/12 16:16

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