Reply #10: social darwinism

[M3some]

I have a couple of real good friends, close friends, who are more apolictical than anything, but if pushed, will lean pretty far right and they put a lot of faith in social darwinism. That life is hard, that humans will always fight, that you must look out for number one. In response to that, I replied that in a modern, enlightened society, you can look out for number one, but have enough left over to look out for others too. They can't understand why I am progressive and volunteer and such. I suppose its just different ways of looking at the world and the relationships between people.

Thanks for all the definitions. They are all very close to what I though fascism is. Unfortunately, I can see some aspects of that in our current political and national scene.