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Survival of the fittest
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Social Darwinism is generally understood to use the concepts of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest to justify social policies which takes a way the human rights of the weak, and promotes the self seeking traits of the evil male dominance. The ideology of “survival of the fittest” has also motivated ideas of eugenics, scientific racism, degrading of women, Anti semitism, imperialism, fascism, Nazism and struggle between national or racial groups.
Critics of evolution have argued that “survival of the fittest” provides a justification for behaviour that undermines moral standards by letting the strong set standards of political dictatorship to lay the ground of how a society should think and act. to the detriment of the weak
Hitler used the same phrase (“survival for the fittest”) to carry out an evil commission which killed close to six to seven million Jews and seventy million non Jews during the Holocaust of the 2nd world war.
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