(July 29, 2015 at 11:05 am)Alex K Wrote:(July 29, 2015 at 10:55 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Well carry on, no need for me to clog up the thread!
His talk about different lower and higher varieties of man are a good demonstration how much science he got wrong
Yet, he was a rather compassionate guy who did not endorse the enslavement or eradication of other peoples.
Darwin Wrote:As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. If, indeed, such men are separated from him by great differences in appearance or habits, experience unfortunately shews us how long it is, before we look at them as our fellow-creatures
Quote:but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind;
This does not sound compassionate to me. This is someone being pussy about killing outright, so he suggest that if we were to die due to neglect it would beneficial though it would be "Technically wrong". Gee such compassion indeed!
