🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <35B2D09D.4988@richmond.infi.net>,
Scott M. Kozel <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
}"Mark B." <spam_*this*_@see.my.sig> wrote:
}> 
}> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
}> 
}> > > But it didn't.  In each of your little anecdotes, it's possible that a
}> > > small change would have saved their lives as well.
}> 
}> > But they didn't.  They all bought the farm.
}> >
}> > Social Darwinism at work.
}> 
}> Oh, *NOW* I understand!  All this time, I *thought* you were warning us
}> of the dangers of speeding, drunken driving, road rage, and jay-walking.
}> 
}> But what you're *REALLY* saying is that wealth and power flow naturally
}> into the posession of genetic superhumans -- Der Ubermensch --
}
}'Social Darwinism' refers to the situation where stupidity and gross
}carelessness is "rewarded" with removal from the species.

Nope, that's plain old fashioned natural selection.  No "Social" about
it.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."