On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:25:37 AM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

” A lopsided education has helped to encourage that illusion. Man must
realize that a fundamental law of necessity reigns throughout the whole realm
of Nature and that his existence is subject to the law of eternal struggle
and strife. He will then feel that there cannot be a separate law for mankind
in a world in which planets and suns follow their orbits, where moons and
planets trace their destined paths, where the strong are always the masters
of the weak and where those subject to such laws must obey them or be
destroyed.” Hitler

Social Darwinism has been a bad thing, even in its milder forms.

But if Hitler was wrong, the question still remains: what was he wrong *about*?

If Man were not "subject to the law of eternal struggle and strife", if those
who fail to succeed in competition still had an equal chance to survive...

then why was it necessary for the Allies to take up arms in order to defend
themselves from the German military as mobilized by Hitler and the Nazis?

Hitler was not wrong about the nature in which Man finds himself; what he was
wrong about was how Man should respond to that situation - he was wrong about
morality.

John Savard