Reply #85: Perhaps it does have a basis in science, in Darwin's Natural Selection

[dugaresa]

Fitness to survive isn't just in your ability to live long and outlast the flu. Fitness is also in your ability to reason and think.

We would like to think that our reasoning and thinking has a positive influence. However people's ability to manipulate a situation to the better-ment of themselves and their offspring is a concept of "fitness". If I am smart enough to realize that living in a cave is smarter than living in the open, it makes me more fit. (that is a positive idea that results in survival).

But if I realize that I can have more to myself, if I manipulate the group to pick on another group and deprive that group of food. That is fitness too, although it is considered morally wrong it doesn't mean it isn't a survival mechanism. If I tell the group I am special and I am smart enough to con them into giving me more, that helps me right?

If I convince them that the blondes in the group are a drain, and I use anecdotal evidence to back it up and there aren't enough blondes to fight back and they aren't smart enough to argue against it, what happens? The blondes lose, I win and I have their stuff or I block them from getting anything and taking more for myself. That is to an extent Natural Selection.