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War accelerated evolution, it’s why it exists.

So did compassion, probably in a greater amount. And yet the greater amount of resources goes into war at the expense of compassion.

Humanity has taken control of its own evolution and no longer relyies on natural selection to be the driving force for change. Using evolution as an excuse to make bad and immoral choices is a poor argument and should be left back in the stone age.

Yes, the social darwinist approach inevitably lead to eugenical thinking and the human meat grinder that follows. We, as being with the capacity to understand harmful v. non-harmful behaviour, have a consequence to harmful behaviour, collectively: human suffering and the suppression of freedom.

>Humanity has taken control of its own evolution

Has it taken full control of it or just partial control?

You have cause and effect mixed up.

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