Is there a Darwinian basis for treating people with equal rights?

Question

If so, explain it.

DuckPhup, don't be so snotty for once. Clearly, I'm asking about moral predication, not how to act on a bus. You know this, since you got arount to your answer.

Answer 1

Yes...
Evolution explains why social animals have a moral code they live by. This moral code or compass allows groups of animals to work collectively towards a common goal, and allows the species to flourish.
As humans our social order, and evolution have allowed us to codify this innate morality. Remember this is on a "tribal" level still and there are many people who show prejudges to those outside their tribe.

Answer 2

Nice try, but equality rights and Darwinian Theory are apples and oranges. Darwin's theory deals with evolutionary constructs and survival of the fittest. His theory is not a societal construct, but a natural one. Equality rights are a construct of a thinking social sphere. Humans have the innate ability to render laws for governing people. Animals, although social, do not have the capacity form equality laws (I do however concede that they do have a social structure for self preservation), at least not yet. Who knows, one day they may. The point is Darwin never theorized beyond the natural world.

Answer 3

That is like asking if there is an Einsteinian basis for torturing people. The one represents scientific theories in the coninuing process of understanding the universe and the other represents morality.

You treat people with equality because people all deserve as much and no one has the right to take that away.

Answer 4

Darwin's expeditions were only-funded by the British government so that a scientific base could be used for racist and imperial ambitions.

He was not paid to write theories to encourage treating people with equal rights!

The theory espoused that man evolved from apes. It then claimed that some people had not fully evolved from their primate forms, and were thus inferior to others. These inferior people were said to be the non-Europeans, and especially the Africans.

Thus, on a mission to civilise these 'savages', the Europeans used Darwin's theory to oppress and destroy many parts of the world.

Answer 5

Whenever I see a question like this, I am appalled to be reminded that there are people out there who are so out of touch with their basic humanity, and reality, that they would not have any idea how to conduct themselves in society, absent the code of an imaginary supernatural being, based on the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders.

Cooperation, altruism and love are innate properties of human existence... a more sophisticated version of the social organization that you can see among pods of dolphins or orcas, packs of wolves, lion prides and troops of chimpanzees. Moral consensus, moral conscience and mutual empathy are evolved survival traits. These are social constructs... the social lubrication that allows people to exist together. People come away with the misconception that they don't exist, absent religion. The religious puppet masters try to perpetuate that idea, in order to protect their conduits to wealth and power... but that is a canard. This has to do, entirely, with human nature.

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"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~ Steven Weinberg
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Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil Part 2.1 (moral behavior)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGLPViVW5ms

Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil Part 2.6 (evolution basis for morality)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGLPViVW5ms&mode=related&search=

Answer 6

Only if you extend the survival of the fittest from individuals to social groups . . . then, the society that practices equal rights is more peaceful and prosperous and will be the "fittest" society.

Answer 7

I would say no because the most adaptive species would not do so in order to protect its own evolution

Answer 8

WHY care? Darwin's theories have already been proven to be incorrect.(my opinion). But, consider this.........Did you know that Darwin himself questioned his own theory of evolution?.......TRUE....Research it.....He questioned and doubted his own "theory" for many reasons, one of which was ....Where are all the "in between" species? ..........And somehow today schools and scholars teach that "theory "to be true.................Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMM......

Answer 9

There is no such thing as "equality" in nature, there is only the strong and the dead.

Answer 10

yess too much to explain