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Originally posted by Spanky
I am not using "social Darwinian" theories.
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Yes, you are (or, at least you are arguing about them). Social Darwinism is the idea that social behaviors have a heritable component (e.g.: you have "instincts" that are genetically determined, which influence behavior), and which therefore can be passed on, mutate or die out, and therefore are subject to the process of Darwinian evolution. Darwin never asserted that.
As for the rest, I don't really care one way or the other - fight on!
