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A lot of these mass shooters (and a number of serial killers) quote social Darwinism nonsense as inspiration. I wonder why that ideological portion is not being dealt with more. I hear social Darwinism ideas fairly frequently in everyday conversations with people, like casual lunch conversations.


I hear social Darwinism ideas fairly frequently in everyday conversations with people, like casual lunch conversations.

Really? I guess I can believe this. I wish I didn't, but I have overheard plenty of bullshit over the years myself.

Hell, there was a thread on HN awhile back with posters essentially advocating for eugenics and the mods here didn't blink an eye.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542738

ITT: "Eugenics were crushed with violence, they weren't actually disproved."

A ton of thinly veiled arguments for Social Darwinism and selective breeding in that thread. Disgusting. Yet the mods let it go.


So what makes them think that they are superior to others and it tips them in conducting mass shootings?


.. not to mention that most mass shooters don't have children and end up shot during the situation..


It is not individual Darwinism but social Darwinism. They think they are part of a superior race, and so it does not matter as much what happens to them individually.


It's a twisted tautology. They are the ones shooting, which makes them in their mind the predator and superior being.




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