> The democratic, lobby-based, "law-for-sale" system is systemically disadvantaged to the classic survival of the adaptable. Odd, I was reading a history book

> The democratic, lobby-based, "law-for-sale" system is systemically disadvantaged to the classic survival of the adaptable. Odd, I was reading a history book the other day and took note of this passage: "The other wrong lesson [the philosopher William James] thought people took from On the Origin of Species is, in effect, the flip side of the first. It is the belief that evolutionary science can lay a foundation for norms–that natural selection serves as a kind of "bottom-line" arbiter of merit. This is the doctrine of "the survival of the fittest," .... It makes the logic of evolution the logic of human values: it suggests that we should pursue policies and honor behavior that are consistent with the survival of characteristics understood to be "adaptive," and it justifies, as "natural," certain kinds of coercion."