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Author Topic:   Is eugenics the logical result of Darwinism?
Wounded King
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Message 208 of 231 (229690)
08-04-2005 11:05 AM
Reply to: Message 207 by compmage
08-04-2005 10:18 AM


Re: Was Hitler right (sort of)?
The problem here is that the criteria you use to determine fitness may not be those that natural selection would choose. One of the major problems with most advocates of eugenics is that they really want to do all the selection themselves, but they can't and if they did they would almost certainly get it wrong, because they don't understand the full complexity of the system.
Cooperative social phenomena are also arguably things which have been selected for in terms of behavioural dispositions why should we ignore the benefits of these in favour of struggle?
TTFN,
WK

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Wounded King
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Message 211 of 231 (229733)
08-04-2005 12:06 PM
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08-04-2005 12:00 PM


Re: Was Hitler right (sort of)?
Sorry I thought you had a sensible question, I didn't realise you were a complete crank.
TTFN,
WK

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