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Re:Survival of the Friendliest by wu-ikkyu on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:57PM (#13950853)
Closing sentence:

>For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax.

Reminds me of the Oppenheimer quote:

>It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so

Re:Survival of the Friendliest by gadders on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:52PM (#13951738)
>For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax.

You can't have laws without violence.

Re:Survival of the Friendliest by eru on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:19PM (#13962194)
That's not true.

Laws can be useful just as a Schelling point, even without any enforcement.

Re:Survival of the Friendliest by ajarmst on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:27PM (#13951982)
No the message is "that was never the Darwinian view, why don't you actually read his work?"
Re:Survival of the Friendliest by wu-ikkyu on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:54PM (#13952144)
The message of what?