Negative Impacts of Social Darwinism on Society

After five years sailing on the sea and, Charles Darwin made a lot of observations and collection on kinds of animals, plants, and fossils. The valuable experience inspired Darwin and made him create the theory of evolution -- one of the most important theories in all humankind's history. However, not everyone can understand the theory correctly; many sociologists tried to perfect social theory by adding the theory of evolution.

Charles Darwin wanted to tell us that 'is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring. (Than)' By twisting the original meaning of Darwin, Sociologists created Social Darwinism and used the new theory as the support of racial discrimination.

One of the most typical examples is Nazi, and the infamous holocaust -- the genocide of European Jews. Two third of Jews who lived in Europe were killed in the genocide. At the end of WWII in 1945, almost six million Jews died, and more than one million are children. One of the reasons that the Nazi start the genocide is that Nazi believes that human beings can be divided into different races. Each races' intrinsic characteristics can be inherited. The characteristics that inherited by genes are not only related to physical appearance but also affect their way of thinking, creative, intelligence. As the superior race, Nazi believed that they had the human right but also have a duty to conquer and destroy the inferior race such as Jews. The reason why soldiers and citizens strongly support the Nazis is that Nazis use social Darwinism to legalize the genocide. There is no doubt that social Darwinism is a wrong theory, and this article will find out why it is a wrong theory.

The social Darwinism equals racism, and it is just a set of evolutionary terms assembled to justify racism. From my perspective, the major problem of social Darwinism is that it has logical fallacy. For example, we know that 'people will die,' but we can not get the conclusion that 'people should die now.' We know that 'people kill others for some reason,' but we can no get the conclusion that 'kill people is the right thing.' That is the fallacy social Darwinist made before. They believe that only the strong are entitled to survive, but does not define the strong. In human society, many successful people are not strong; they get great wealth by relying on social rules. Can wealth be represented as strong? Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has more than a hundred billion asset, we assume that Bezos is the strong people in social Darwinist's mind. However, if we put Bezos and Muhammad Ali in the Boxing ring together, I bet that Ali can strike Bezos down in one minute. In this situation, Ali can be represented the strong.

Everyone, sooner or later, in a different situation, is weak, and social Darwinism denies the weak all rights. We can not get the conclusion that 'one kind of people are strong because of what they have and others should be eliminated' From this perspective, social Darwinism denies everyone in the world. For example, in the article, the author talks about an IQ test; Anglo-Saxon Americans tried to use the test to prove that they are the superior race, above all other races. However, the mistake they made is 'Anglo-Saxon Americans have the highest score, so they are the best race.' In fact, the truth should be 'ignoring the education background; different people have different scores in this specific test.'

We are in a multicultural society; It is hard to define which individuals are weak, Some social Darwinist believes that disable people are the burden of society, but they can not ignore the contribution that Steven Hawking made before. They may believe that stupid people should be eliminated, but we can not define what is stupid. A person with a weak brain may be good at some unique fields like music, painting. Forest Gump, one of the most famous characters in America. He has a low IQ, but it can not stop his success.

Nazis thought that Jews were inferior, then the inferior Einstein left and helped the U.S. invented atomic bombs. The racial discrimination that actually exists. Social Darwinist never feels shame; they use their twisted, shallow mind to distort Darwin's theory and whitewash their error. I must point out the mistake.