Was Darwin right? Is Evolution of the Species what is really going on? I am the product of countless eons of clawing and scrambling up the evolutionary ladder just to reach the top of the food chain? If I am that product, what about you?
Survival of the fittest. If I am bigger and stronger than you, why shouldn't I just kill and eat you? If your wife is prettier than mine (unlikely), why shouldn't I kill you and take her. I'd only be doing it for the betterment of the species. I wouldn't even dislike you while I was killing you. My only thought would be "this is to insure our (Mankind's) survival!"
What a world! Everybody and everything competing for top billing with the whole Earth as the stage. Pity the poor animals and people just a bit lower in the food chain! Wait....stop....Pity is not a part of Darwin. The proper term would be to "Use the lesser adapted people and animals for the betterment of yourself and, in so doing, the betterment of the gene pool."
True Altruism does not and cannot fit into Darwin's world. Darwin's theory dictates that humans will do anything to compete for the top spot, even if that means nations build up stockpiles of nuclear and biological weapons. Of course, if we ever use those weapons and wipe man off the face of the planet, Darwin will shake his head knowingly and lament that we were just not meant to be kings of the earth.
We teach our children the Theory of Evolution and teach them that it is "the way of things" when lions attack and kill lesser animals. We teach them that those animals who are bigger and stronger survive and make the world better. Then we yell at our kids when they take their friend's ice cream from them at lunch! Why are we yelling? Shouldn't our Darwinian instincts tell us to praise our child for the ice cream "redistribution" and chide our child for not taking the weaker kid's lunch money?
If this world is truly a Darwinian place, it might explain why so many people suck.
Blawgerman
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