Darwin at work: An example for society.

Anyone with half a brain knows who Darwin is and what he stands for- the theory of biological evolution and nature's bias towards intelligence, strength, and general heartiness over complete and utter dumbasses- the dumbasses die off while the the stronger, smarter, yada, yada survive and breed thus passing their genes onto the next generation of critter. It's a nice simple system and it works. It also allows for a nice balance in the environment.

Now take this video for example.





I laughed a few times. It's a dog, obviously not incredibly bright, gleefully leaping from a moving vehicle at an unsafe speed, in order to play with his sprinting companion. This, people, is pure Darwinian evolution at work. A smart dog, would not leap from a vehicle as it's common sense would inform it that doing so would result in injury, death, and at the least a severe shaming in the dog community by it's peers. If this happened with no people around, nature would let that dog head on off to heaven. Survival of the fittest has done it's job. That dog obviously did something way stupid and is now enabling the wild environment the ability to benefit from it's absence.

Humans are an anomaly. See, any Human with half a heart would have stopped to help the brainless pooch. And morally it's the right thing to do. But here's where the abberation starts. Humans break the laws of nature. We disrupt the basic laws of Darwinian evolution by enabling the dumb, malformed, and generally weak to live. This places a burden on the people who are strong, productive, and intelligent to provide for the former. Statistically, the lesser intelligent breed more. Alot. This brings about all kinds of stress upon the socially enabled and thus breaks these laws of Darwinian selection.

Humans are fundamentally different from animals, and thus our sentience, our moral compass, often interdicts what our baser, more feral instincts compell us to do. I can't say we all just ignore the moral and ethical lessons that Humanity has learned over the last five thousand years that recorded civilization has existed and leave the weak out to fend for themselves. But it would be interesting to imagine a world where Societies acted in such a manner.

Would the world be a better place?