"We can see from the way his argument is formulated that Darwin realized that culture tended to mute the action of selection in that, most particularly, morality demanded that the strong help the weak survive. The sorry state of the social world led him to observe that "the vicious members of society increase faster than the virtuous..." (241).
How interesting that the most "moral" and "virtuous" humans are the ones that defy natural selection. Here in America, we have programs like well-fare and social security. We have soup kitchens for the hungry and orphanages for the parentless. In the African safari, lions chase the gazelles as prey. This relationship is considered mutualistic in that the gazelles feed the lions, and the lions only prey on the weakest gazelles, making the herd stronger. Humans are at the top of the food chain. There is no being to weed out the weak from the strong. Humans strive to make the weak stronger, not make the race stronger.
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Kaylin, I noticed this too. In fact I just finished posting a blog about it. Humans are weakening themselves because we have made it to the top of the food chain and there is nothing to check our growth. It's kind of ironic.
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