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It’s simply due to a difference in their levels of melatonin. Science has dismantled the very concept of race and discovered that there’s nothing genetically significant between people with different skin colors. It’s also often the reason why some individuals feel entitled to attack or belittle those who have darker skins than themselves. Indeed, the supremacy of one race over others has been the leitmotif of many discriminatory and violent acts. Race is one of the favorite topics of those who defend social Darwinism. Behind this, there’s nothing more than ignorance and a desire for power and wealth. In reality, it’s been a theoretical apparatus to justify the violence exerted by some people on others and by some individuals on others. Social Darwinism hasn’t served so much to classify ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ individuals but has been more oriented toward classifying entire societies and ethnic groups. For instance, was Stephen Hawking ‘weak’ because of a disease, despite having been one of the world’s most brilliant scientists? Was Adolf Hitler ‘strong’ for having invaded almost all of Europe, even though this only brought misery and destruction? A groundless theory

The first problem with this approach is that it doesn’t define what ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ means.

The postulate of social Darwinism is really simple: if the strongest prevail in nature, the same must happen in the human world. The first to transfer these concepts from the natural to the social world was Herbert Spencer. This means that, in nature, there’s a continuous struggle for survival that the strongest are destined to win.

This is a process by which the strongest organisms adapt and survive, while the weakest disappear over time. His theory proposed that different species evolve from natural selection. Editorial credit: roseed abbas / Social DarwinismĬharles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution and with it marked a definitive milestone in the beliefs of that time about nature. Charles Darwin is the author of the theory of evolution, although it was Herbet Spencer who brought it to the social world.