"You've angered the hive"

Re:"You've angered the hive" by yters on Monday February 07, 2011 @07:18PM (#2191358)

If you constantly kill everything that is weak you destroy your ecosystem. Much better is to build up the weak, which is why the West prospers and other cultures do not. Social and economic Darwinism do not work.

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Re:"You've angered the hive" by ramchip on Monday February 07, 2011 @07:53PM (#2191452)

> which is why the West prospers and other cultures do not

I think you're forgetting Korea, Japan, Taiwan and several middle East countries. Even China isn't doing too bad, recently. And isn't western-style democracy much closer to economic Darwinism than eg. socialism?

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Re:"You've angered the hive" by yters on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:40PM (#2195427)

And do those companies build up their people or destroy them? Don't miss the forest for the trees in your response.

China is a different case. Insofar as they respect human rights they prosper. Insofar as they don't they fail.

No, socialism is strongly tied to eugenics, which is state driven Darwinism. That is purposefully killing off the weak and unfit.

Capitalism is a matter of letting the best man win. Killing the weak is not a part of that.

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Re:"You've angered the hive" by dereg on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @01:41AM (#2192228)

It's called creative destruction, and it's a wonderful thing.

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Re:"You've angered the hive" by burgerbrain on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:00PM (#2191472)

"the West prospers and other cultures do not."

Ahh good old fashion sarcasm.

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Re:"You've angered the hive" by yters on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:40PM (#2195428)

All the cultures explicitly founded on Darwinism crash and burn. Name an exception.

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