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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope you just pretend that you don't know what social Darwinism is and how applying it worked out in the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm aware of it, and I've made no statements along those lines. I think it's disingenuous to conflate my statements of evolution and the question of one sacrifice for the good of the world, to social Darwinism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Social Darwinism is what you get by applying basic understanding of evolution to moral questions - exactly what you have been doing. It's really not that complicated. As a moral construct it only leads to suffering since it lacks any empathy.