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>Darwinism has no bearing on legal matters.

While some laws are created to protect the weakest; a lot of inheritance, marriage and family laws follow their rationale directly from Darwinism.

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Marriage and family laws predate Darwin and have nothing to do with "Darwinism". They are products of, in anything, human social psychology.

With Darwinism he obviously doesn't mean the field of study, but rather the subject of the field of study, which was already happening way before Darwin's discovery of it, shaping among other things human social psychology...

Marriage and family laws are based upon centuries-old cultural traditions that evolved and survived to the present day by virtue of promoting their own survival. That’s Darwinism. The fact that they predate Darwin is as meaningless as the fact that Earth’s orbit around the sun predates Copernicus.

If there was one in the past, it certainly doesnt exist today. Marriage laws seem to have evolved to laws protecting the mother and ensuring the child can grow sufficiently comfortable.

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