Nietzsche published The Anti-Christ in 1888. Along with many other things, he had this to say about pity: ‘Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction; it fights on the side of those disinherited and condemned by life; by maintaining life in so many of the botched of all kinds, it gives life itself a gloomy and dubious aspect.’
I think I rather prefer what Jesus had to say. Doesn't this just exemplify the dangers of any philosophy based on evolution?
Reference: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot et al.
Let's be honest - rape, murder and plotting are all made perfectly justifiable if you take it all to its logical and natural conclusion - and how well it fits with Galton's eugenic ideas!
Evolutionary thinking has the potential to be really evil.
TBH even our godless mankind isn't this bad - well is it?
