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OldFatGuy:
I think folks can take social Darwinism too far at times. This may be one of those times.
Unfortunately working right along beside evolution to shape natural history is extinction driven by natural selection. About 99.999% of all kinds of living things to have ever lived have been made extinct by the struggle you are invoking. Therefore it is logical to predict that there is a high order of probability that such militarism will lead to human extinction rather than human evolution. And should humanity beat the odds to evolve, do we really want to live in an authoritarian, hive-mind, militarised state of being imposed upon us by behavioural evolution in response to collective killing and predation? It seems a losing game, no matter how we play it out. Perhaps it's time to use our own free will to stop fighting each other and to start fighting transmogrifying evolution and likely extinction instead?
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
I think folks can take social Darwinism too far at times. This may be one of those times.
War is proof of ongoing evolution. We keep improving our methods and tools for killing each other.
Unfortunately working right along beside evolution to shape natural history is extinction driven by natural selection. About 99.999% of all kinds of living things to have ever lived have been made extinct by the struggle you are invoking. Therefore it is logical to predict that there is a high order of probability that such militarism will lead to human extinction rather than human evolution. And should humanity beat the odds to evolve, do we really want to live in an authoritarian, hive-mind, militarised state of being imposed upon us by behavioural evolution in response to collective killing and predation? It seems a losing game, no matter how we play it out. Perhaps it's time to use our own free will to stop fighting each other and to start fighting transmogrifying evolution and likely extinction instead?
Cheers.
Evilroddy.