Elitism

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

As a Social Darwinist, I believe in the benefit of self, or the collaboration of the group, over the indominant traits of those who are simply not gifted with what we are. Socialists would argue that some people can be helped out of their situations, that society helps to make people poor and turn to criminal acts to survive. While this is generally true, I don't think it requires change, but rather, people should be more cut-throat about making it in life and surviving and getting to the top. Survival of the fittest and the most elaborate. I don't believe the top of the ladder is required to take care of the bottom wrung, and what is wrong with that? They achieved their ranks and kept it through hard work and determination, why should they be expected to share.

It is obvious that you acknowledge the necessity of change, yet ironically you deny it. You suggest a reinforcement of current socio-economic situations by promoting you are actually multiplying the problem. A more cut-throat society would create more fierce competition which would actually lead to more violence, more crime. Crime is not only caused by a necessity to survive, so you are not really addressing the whole problem. Also, sure you got to where you are now, but does the method justify the means? For me, the means is much more important, for you must live with the ramifications of your actions.

I am a believe of infantcide, a practice used as late as the 1960's. It was used by parents who did not want to bring infants into the world because they had severe mental and physical traits that hindered them in the world. Why should anyone have to suffer and be put through a life and why should we, as a society, have to help them out. We didn't cause their flaws, nature did, and as such, we know that they cannot survive on their own as they mature.

One, I have the highest respect for all life. No matter, if you think it is flawed, it is still a gift from Nature. You may see it as a flaw, but I like to think that every life is precious, and who are we to be the arbritators of life? Can we actually be so impietous to actually try to reign power in realms beyond our own? The taint of murder is not something I desire on my hands. You ask about suffering too, but that is a part of life. No matter how hard you try to will eventually suffer. This is not a bad thing. From it we gain knowledge of ourselves, and learn to understand and appreciate what we do have. Even though they might suffer themselves, and cause trouble on the part of others, they are still humans. Also they can major impacts on the world. Terry Fox for one. Though he was not born physically disable, because of cancer I think it was, he became physically disabled, yet he raised much awareness about cancer research.

I believe in the exploitation of those too weak to help themselves. In a capitalist society, the poor serve a delicate purpose in order to sustain the balance. Poor people are required so that someone is forced to take the jobs no one else wants. No one literally forces them, but because of the situation set up, they have no choice, unless they find a loop hole or an in to get by and work their way through the socio-economic ladder and into the rungs of the middle - upper class levels. They then are good examples of the Social Darwinism.

Though I agree that social conditions do force them into these jobs, I do not believe in exploiting people. Again this returns to a moral issue. Exploiting someone for your own needs, is a selfish act, and I believe that the mere fact you use people shows a lack of morals on the manipulator's own part. In the end I think they are weak, for they cannot accomplish what they want without using people.

The other people, the people who leech off of society, the vagrants, the homeless who have no hope in the world, as heartless as this sounds, have no reason to be in this world. The poor populate and generate more people than the wealthier, and thus, it is natural that when you are born into poverty, you will stay in poverty. That is their own flaw, and rightfully so that you stay where you are born into unless you work to counter-act it.

Yet people who manipulate others are any better? You are kidding right. To exploit people is too leech off of them, to make them do your own work. Also before you mentioned that if someone arises higher out of their social situation then they are a good example, yet here you say it not possible. Also it not someone's fault to be born into a socio-economic situation. They were born into it. If you have a chance to gain more in life, why shouldn't anyone else? Just because people get a head start in the race of life does not mean they will win. Returning to another point, you have no right to say someone should not be born. Interesting fact is that even though the poor do generate more population, it is the wealthy, the minority that produces the majority of the pollution. You are trying to convince me their advantages?

I have no sympathy for the individuals who simply waste away without fighting. Some say that not everyone is born with the strength to fight, that their personality types prevent them from having strength. Well, then they are not meant for survival according to Darwinism. Is it so bad that they should suffer the fate they have determined for themselves? The will to survive and prosper should always be above the personality traits you're disposed with.

Personalities can change with the wind. People are able to overcome their situations and rise above it. You talk about strenght, but according to Darwin, not the strongest survives, it is the most adapted.

You see life as a hedonistic and materialistic view, which limits yourself to see the true potentials in humans. Also you completely ignore morality, and the fact of higher powers. You present an interesting ideas, yet ones that are just amplifications of our phallocentric Western culture. You put a value on the large, tall, and strong. You are stuck in a priapism. It would appear you are trying to advocate progression, yet it is still bound to our current power structures. Soceity is already, for the majority, like this. Not in the extreme case as you, but the apathy and hedonism of the current situation is causing the deterioration of humanity. The way I see it, is Social Darwinism will actually catalyze our end.

Sorry if I lost track while typing this. I became distracted often.