RE: Social Darwinism: Right or Wrong
November 13, 2012 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2012 at 2:30 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 9, 2012 at 2:04 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: If I didn't believe in God, it seems to me that I would adopt this belief so I was curious how those those that really don't believe in God feel.
So please let me know what you think. Is it right or wrong and why?
It could just as easily seem to someone else that had he not believed in the glory of Buddha or the wisdom of Shiva, he would have led a alternate life of dissipation, depravity and crime. But even if that were so, that does not mean Buddha or shive exists in reality, only that belief in some vacuous tenents would have a similar psychological effect on the weak and ignorant mind as the belief in Santa Clause upon toddlers.
As to whether Social Darwinism is right or wrong, that is also an toddler caliber question. Social darwinism is an inextricable trait of any group of social beings with an survival urge. It is just like gravity is an inextricable trait of living on earth. It is neither right nor wrong. It just is. Everything that you do that effects your chances for advancing either in social status, in wealth, or in reproductive prospects, is social darwinism in action, whether you choose to perceive them that way or not. Whether you deem it right or wrong, there is nothing that you do that does not count towards this darwinian game. You play by beling alive. You play by commiting suicide. You play by being a hermit praying to some silly god, you play by amassing wealth and sleep with a hundred women. You can win, lose or break even. But you can't not play because everything you can conceivably do is part of the game.
What is left to you is to decide whether you would choose to perceive conscious efforts to increase your chances of success in social darwinian competition in whatever aspects as your overriding goal in life, or if your choose some other goal to be more important.
