Social Darwinism sucks. Idiots taking the laws of the natural plant and animal non human world and applying it to the world that we create for ourselves. They conclude that is the law upon which our conceptual social structures are based. Baloney. Our laws are whatever we choose them to be. Maybe they were natural animal laws when we were animals but we gained the god like ability to create conceptual laws and rules dictating the development of our social structures when we started to think.
I will grant that current systems are legacy systems based less and less on natural laws that dictate the development and behavior of animals. Some animal development and behavior is truly good and contributing to our social structure behavior. Some is not. We have the intelligence to know the difference and create our own laws that dictate how our social conceptual systems develop.
While I will take Darwin's deductive approach to get from what I observe at the top to get to the bottom explanation of how the system works those details are nothing more than the ideas of dead men that are not laws, just premise conditions subject to change as we become smarter and better at getting where we want our conceptual systems to take us.
For some that journey is no farther than where we are now and for them I suppose that the premises of our current financial and political conceptual systems are in fact laws as factual and solid as the laws of the natural world or those equally dictated by God through religion.
Cast off to set sail on the Beagle.
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