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Closing sentence: >For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear:
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Closing sentence:
>For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax.
Reminds me of the Oppenheimer quote:
>It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so
- gadders 10y ago>For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax. You can't have laws without violence.
- eru 10y agoThat's not true. Laws can be useful just as a Schelling point, even without any enforcement.
- ajarmst 10y agoNo the message is "that was never the Darwinian view, why don't you actually read his work?"
- wu-ikkyu 10y agoThe message of what?