Comparing and Contrasting Survival of the Sweetest with Darwinism and Social Darwinism

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Dec 21, 2008, 9:29:03 AM12/21/08
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* Darwin said those that are most well adapted survive. Social
Darwinism says that those that are strongest and most beautiful
survive. survival of the Sweetest says that ultimately those that are
most poorly adapted survive and well adapted are wiped out at the end
of the age.

* Darwin said that it is the impersonal and harsh hand of nature that
selects who will survive. Social Darwinism says the strongest and
most intelligent are picked by their peers to survive (maybe).
Survival of the sweetest says that the overwhelming selection pressure
is not mere survival nor of for the sake of strength, beauty or
intelligence, but instead, it is put into action by other members of
the biosphere both individuals and species and the criteria used is
whether the organism contributes to the whole.

* Darwinism and social Darwinism claim the selfish gene is in the end
that which is selected for. Survival of the sweetest says the selfish
gene is like a weed and is systematically eventually removed and
destroyed at the end of an age.

* Darwinism and social Darwinism says that the biggest competition an
organism faces is with other organism. Survival of the Sweetest says
the biggest struggle an organism faces is with itself and overcome
it's own selfish nature in order to give it's life in whole to the
greater biosphere by producing some kind of "good fruit."

* Darwinism and social Darwinism says that the aim of all organism is
to survive and reproduce. Survival of the sweetest says that the true
aim of an organism and the real measure of whether it succeeded is if
it gives it's life for the greater purposes of life. Only then will
it's geneses (miraculously and counterintuitively) survive.
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