I hear social Darwinism ideas fairly frequently in everyday conversations with people, like casual lunch conversations. Really? I guess I can believe this. I w

I hear social Darwinism ideas fairly frequently in everyday conversations with people, like casual lunch conversations. Really? I guess I can believe this. I wish I didn't, but I have overheard plenty of bullshit over the years myself. Hell, there was a thread on HN awhile back with posters essentially advocating for eugenics and the mods here didn't blink an eye. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542738 ITT: "Eugenics were crushed with violence, they weren't actually disproved." A ton of thinly veiled arguments for Social Darwinism and selective breeding in that thread. Disgusting. Yet the mods let it go.