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This 5 page paper looks at Darwinism and how it helps to explain slavery and colonialism during the 1800s. Social Darwinism as a concept is explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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mentality and suggest that laws not be made to protect people from themselves. Rather, instead of enforcing drug or seat belt laws for example, people should be allowed to do
what they like. The smart ones will survive without government help. It is an idea that appears sound but some believe that using Darwinism in this manner is somewhat twisted.
After all, there is a lot of attention given to making sure that people live well and are safe. Society tends to take care of its poor and indigent and
mentally challenged. How can people just let the less intelligent members of the human race die off? In some sense, the idea is also related to genocide and that
idea is certainly abhorrent. Still, the concept of social Darwinism has been used historically and some say that it had been utilized in order to justify the implementation of colonial
expansion and imperial rule by Europe and the United States during the latter part of the nineteenth Century. It is true that colonialism existed prior to that time, but it
was by that time that the world had been "enlightened" so to speak and when theories would crop up regarding things like Darwinism. Old ways were questioned but there was
a caveat. Suddenly the mainstream had an excuse for their past and present brutality. Certain theoretical findings essentially allowed the bullies to continue with their ways. They now had science
behind them. Interestingly, Parenti (1995) says that during the latter part of the nineteenth century, Darwinism "was the great bugaboo" (p.20). In fact, the presidents of nine well known Eastern
colleges prohibited the teaching of evolutionary theory as creationism was the only acceptable theory to explain how the world began (1995). Yet, while Darwinism as a science may not
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