Deftil writes:
randman writes:
Eugenics was definitely influenced by Darwinism and played a significant role in Hitler and NAZI thinking. To deny this is silly.
but that seems to say that some of the blame for the NAZI movement falls on Darwin and the theory of natural selection.
It's good to give a message number link when you pull a quote from somewhere other than the replied to message. The Randman quote was from
here. He also says more at that message.
As far as your Randman quote went, I could argue that that statement is true. It comes down to debating the "significant".
I could do a variation on that quote:
Moose might have said, writes:
Creationism was definitely influenced by Darwinism and played a significant role in Randman's thinking. To deny this is silly.
In preparing this message, I've come to realize that Randman's sentence is poorly written. I presume he was intending to say:
Darwinism played a significant role in Hitler and NAZI thinking.
As I see it, what he's actually saying is:
(Darwinism influenced eugenics and) Eugenics played a significant role in Hitler and NAZI thinking.
But so what about that last stuff. The bottom line is that Darwinism seems to have played a role in Randman's thinking, and therefor evolution might just be evil.
Or something like that.
Moose
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