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In reply to the discussion: There Have Been A Bunch Of Contaminated Foods Lately [View all]wnylib
(25,183 posts)36. Um, you've got your quotes mixed up.
Last edited Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:05 PM - Edit history (1)
Darwin spoke of survival of the fittest, not Jesus.
Most people do not understand what Darwin meant by survival of the fittest. He did not mean the richest, smartest, best looking, most deserving, or even the healthiest. He meant whoever was best equipped genetically to survive whatever environmental setting they were in or whatever environmental changes occurred.
In some settings, it was the ability to work cooperatively that enabled pockets of our ancestors to survive.
Jesus taught people to cooperate and look after each other.
Trump says the fittest are the ones who turn on their own people and take what they want for themselves. Might makes right, whether it is financial might, the might of political power, or the might of physical force. He follows Hitler's playbook on what "race" is fittest.
But Hitler's notion of superiority and who was fittest was disproven. A brilliant scientist of the "wrong race" was visiting the US when Hitler came to power and stayed here for his own safety. He wrote to President Roosevelt about the work of German scientists on a super weapon. We developed the super weapon, not Germany. The whole world benefited from the works of Albert Einstein, especially the US. But Hitler would have killed him as "inferior."
Most people do not understand what Darwin meant by survival of the fittest. He did not mean the richest, smartest, best looking, most deserving, or even the healthiest. He meant whoever was best equipped genetically to survive whatever environmental setting they were in or whatever environmental changes occurred.
In some settings, it was the ability to work cooperatively that enabled pockets of our ancestors to survive.
Jesus taught people to cooperate and look after each other.
Trump says the fittest are the ones who turn on their own people and take what they want for themselves. Might makes right, whether it is financial might, the might of political power, or the might of physical force. He follows Hitler's playbook on what "race" is fittest.
But Hitler's notion of superiority and who was fittest was disproven. A brilliant scientist of the "wrong race" was visiting the US when Hitler came to power and stayed here for his own safety. He wrote to President Roosevelt about the work of German scientists on a super weapon. We developed the super weapon, not Germany. The whole world benefited from the works of Albert Einstein, especially the US. But Hitler would have killed him as "inferior."
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My daughter lives in a Pittsburgh suburb and she gets a lot of her food from a local farmer
gab13by13
Nov 2024
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Americans alive today are spoiled. They have never lived in a fascist or third world country.
Irish_Dem
Nov 2024
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