Amy Liu
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Albert Camus has once written:
Suicide is the only philosophical question that matters.
Because we mostly kill ourselves
when we have no reason to live
When we can't find our meaning in life...
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1859, Charles Darwin discovered evolutionary theory.
Because of natural selection, he now knows when the environment changes, organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more.
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Herbert Spencer introduced the idea of social Darwinism.
Rather than nature, he believed humans can become more evolved if the poor and the disabled need not be saved by the government. Rich people should marry the rich, smart people should marry the smart. Like a jungle rule, there is no compassion and support.
1940, Adolf Hitler apply social Darwinism in World War II.
He believed Jewish people is inferior. He created the non-exist Aryan which is supposed to refer to Indian- Iranian.
He committed genocide, forcing civilians to follow eugenics, even letting the hospital eliminate disabled people -- golden proof he also believes in social Darwinism together with racism.
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Galapagos finches have different types of beaks. During times of drought, the finches with the larger beaks survived better than those with smaller beaks. During rainy times, more small seeds were produced and the finches with smaller beaks fared better. Since the environment supports both types of beaks, both remain in the population.
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Finches can't recognize who is more advantageous as it changes over time.
Industrial Revolution, when London's air becomes dirty, it influences the color of moths. Most peppered moths used to be a light color with black spots., but when white trees got darker, light-colored moths were eaten by birds more readily. Within months, most moths became darker. After factories had to reduce soot output, light-colored moths increased in number.
There is no way Moths can predict the revolution.
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125000 years ago, ancient humans migrated themselves out of Africa, which likely related to the sudden declines of a large group of animals,
After this period, many people still believe in social Darwinism, as they all have a perfect type of human in mind... no matter how simple and harmful it is, nobody can argue the phrase--survival of fittest because it seems Darwin use it, and it is science.
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nowadays, scientists agree that we should protect the biological diversity of species so when disasters come in some mutations can be the environmentally advantageous ones and save the day.
Is this the science that helps human nature survive when we get two asteroids hit on our land?
Something is wrong here... so, what is the Truth?
What is the real science?
1864, Spencer created the phrase "survival of fittest" in his book, which was later borrowed by Darwin to describe his new theory.
however, the phrase is not accurate, because no creatures are always environmentally advantageous. When climate changes unpredictably, the previous winners like mammoths in the ice age could easily be lost to human hunters and the later warming atmosphere.
It is not the “survival of the fittest”, but rather survival of fitter. The struggle for existence is not eternal and absolute, it relatively exists. Our nature is not a machine that holds the same objectives all the time.
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If we apply the real Darwinism into sociology, where only nature knows our direction of evolution...
We are essentially animals, so I guess the rule is the same, the only real social Darwinism is ...
Diversity!
Golden Record
Equality
Principle
Resolution
to view the world
to save the world
to sacrifice for the world
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