Social Darwinism: Right or Wrong

[TaraJo]

To discuss this, we first have to determine what is meant by 'social darwinsm.' If you're suggesting that some people are inherently carry traits that future generations would probably be better off without, you're probably right. That being said, even the very wise can't see all ends and those undesirable traits may play a positive role in the end. However, because of the way evolution works, even our choicde to forgo official social darwinist theories impacts our evolution (and, yes, the human race is still evolving). At its core, evolution causes species to thrive if they are best suited to their environment. When the environment is changed (or not changed), we evolve. While most of the evolutionary changes we make aren't obvious, others are subtle and very important.

I also think we make a lot of our own choices with social evolution, but sometimes they aren't for the best. Smart people know about overpopulation and they don't have kids and adopt instead, that impacts social evolution. On the other hand, if a whole big group of fundamentalists believe birth control is a sin, that they should have lots of kids and they have as many children as they can, that has a impact on social evolution as well. Which, sadly, says that sometimes, intellignce isn't an evolutionary advantage.