Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is the theory developed in England and the United States that includes the ideas of Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest. It generally states that the strong will survive, gain power, be wealthy and prosper in society while the weak will die off, lose power, be poor and not prosper in society. The stronger you are the generally better your life will be in society. It is not something that you choose, but something that fate has chosen for you. You can be the hardest working person in the world and only achieve half of what someone else has, when it was just handed directly to them. That is how the world works, it is not a pretty place where everyone is happy and taken care of. The world is a battleground where you have to fight for what you want and what you want to achieve. The idea of everything being "fair" in society is a long lost dream. There is no way around it, people will be starving on the streets of Detroit while a movie producer in Los Angeles eats a three course meal and throws half of it in the garbage. There are a couple different views on Social Darwinism and in the paragraphs that follow I will try to help you understand them and then give you my own personal opinion on this idea that has so many people thinking deeply today. One of the obvious views is pro-Social Darwinism. These are the people who do fully believe in this idea and think it should be spread everywhere. Most of these people who believe that are not necessarily at the bottom of the food chain. Why would someone want to be put in a lower category and written off as weak and not given an opportunity to survive? The main supporters of this group would be the stronger, wealthier and more accomplished people in the world. It just wouldn't make sense for a bottom feeder to feel this way about Social Darwinism. One of the main arguments that this group gives is that they made their way to the top and even thought they were helped by "fate" or "luck" it is