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poisonous venom, or anything. So what made the type of monkey we evolved from so great? Many believe (including the Phyre Continuum) that it was their/our sense of community and ability to cooperate. Two or three dozen early humans could with sticks and rocks bring down a great wooly mammoth. No one of them alone would stand a chance - but working together there was no force of nature they could not survive (that is to say the group could survive - individuals would be killed regularly in such encounters - which is why civilizations had to develop). Civilization, with its even higher level of cooperation reaped even greater rewards than the roving bands of primitives.
3 -- A problem arises shortly after the Nazis put their Social Darwinist principles into action - it is this - the weak just won't die off. Some individuals die but as a whole they just won't go extinct - you can take away all their government handouts and supports - their wheel chairs and their schools - their hospitals and their school lunches - but they still won't go extinct. Granted they end up hungry, miserable, and wretched - but somehow they continue to survive without any support. This is a real problem for Nazi philosophers - because they believe unaided the "weak" will be killed off by nature - this is not true for reasons pointed out in 1 and 2d - and because we can conjecture from those reasons and experience that what Social Darwinist refer to as being "weak" is actually an asset. How can weakness be a strength you ask - easy - refer to point 2d - primitive humans had to come together to survive - once they did they more than survived - they could defeat any enemy - they could create civilization. Perhaps the "weak" elements in society have something that all the powerful elites do not. Perhaps their ability for closeness, cooperation, and understanding make them capable of a strength born of unity on a level Nazis and elitists are incapable of recognizing. Again the Nazi philosophy fails to hold up in reality.
4 -- In the end neither nature nor hardship eliminates the delicate, the poor, the mentally or physically ill, the old, or the sensitive from society so the Nazis turn to extermination - which they justify as giving nature a hand. They argue to the masses that this is God's work - that they are doing the weak a favor - that the weak are better off and happier dead - and that it saves lot's of money. They draw up Utopian blue-prints of how great and beautiful the world will be without criminals, ugly people, unintelligent people, sickness and disease, perverts, queers, old people, people with bad habits, etc. When people start getting visions in their heads of this heaven on Earth - murdering a several million people doesn't seem like such a high price to pay.
5 -- Once the Nazis have killed off all the freaks, degenerates, misfits, trouble-makers, and sick - then they decide to come for you. It seems that the "strong" and "powerful" that were the only ones who deserved to live at the beginning of the argument prove themselves as such by whether they have the "stomach" and "courage" and "strength" to kill those who are in the way. Once this is established the "strong" must continually prove themselves as worthy (of living) by killing. i.e. their proof that they are strong is that they kill others - the proof the others are weak is that they got killed. This is Social Darwinism -- this is Fascism. Fascism isn't the act - it is
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