Based on the concept of Darwinian evolution (survival of the fittest), was Hitler right?

Question

Based on the concept of survival of the fittest, was Hitler right in trying to exterminate the Jews?

Answer 1

"was Hitler right?"
absolutely not!!...i learned all about this=world war II+Nazi ideology..

I'm not sure if you already know this but when Hitler was in jail, he wrote his books "my problems"...and in it was the Nazi ideology. the Nazi ideology was indeed influenced by Darwin..who investigated evolution and made the theory of natural selection

natural selection=the process by which favorable traits that are heritable become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable traits that are heritable become less common.

however this law exists only in the ANIMAL KINGDOM! it only teaches us that a wolf and a horse (together) cannot reproduce...so this law does not apply to HUMANS.. that is unless you want to mate with a cow...

since this law states that in the world of nature there is a battle of existence, the strong race will survive right? well what the Nazi ideology did is take this theory of natural selection and DISTORT IT and stated that there is a war for existence between NATIONS as well as NATURE. in between RACES became a "never ending" war for existence and the purpose is to survive. in this war the STRONG will survive and the WEAK will be extinct...

in this case the strong were the Aryans..the pure blond hair+blue eyed and Protestant Germans+Norwegians are the strong ones.. they are the "culture makers".... other races are dependant on them.. the nations in eastern europe are the "servers" and the gypses and jews are "culture destroyers"...they don't have a room in the "new organization".

so does distortion make it right?? well we each have our own opinion.

Answer 2

What's mind boggling to me is that he didn't use that entire base from the get go. If he'd used the 6,000,000 jews to advance the Nazi global domination purpose and achieve global domination he might have realized his goal and then would have gotten away with a true genocide.

One could answer this in a number of ways, so I must admit your question is incredibly vague.

Was Hitler right ? Well as history would have it there were a hell of a lot of Jews that figured out what was going on and still got out in time.

To address survival of the fittest if you mean having a brutal scare tactics and a gun stuck to your face saying get on that train now then yes Hitler was right.

Based on the concept of darwinian evolution surivival of the fittest, I think if you put away the gestapo, scare tactics and guns I think just as in any population there would have been some jews that could have beat some of the Germans to stew.

In any population given there's going to be those who are prettier than most, those who are smarter than all the rest

same applies to those 6mill jews. I'll bet there were probably some playboy model types in that 6 mill who could have put Victoria Silvstedt to shame.

If he had let nature take it's course then he probably would have ended up with something close to the germany we see today (and I stress eventually)

So no he wasn't right to exterminate the jews. You're comparing apples to oranges here. The playing field was anything but even and a lot of the jews refused to even play (left the country) which you don't hear about.

Answer 3

Considering how hard he tried to get rid of the Jews and how well the international Jewish community has survived, I'd say the Jews were actually the fittest. Jews are not a different species competing with humans. All he would have done was take away some of the diversity of the human species and diversity is generally an advantage in evolution. He was wrong on all accounts. Not to mention evil.

Answer 4

No, because the Jews have survived all these centuries, for one thing. I find them to generally be more intelligent and competent on the average than other groups. Maybe that's because the survival of the fittest has already culled this very long blood line. But Hitler was not just taking the stupid or otherwise inferior Jews; he was taking them all.

Also, my two best lovers were both Jewish, even though I am not. (Although Bob joked that it "rubs off," so maybe now I am.) They must be doing something right.

Answer 5

Nope. Evolution is not a linear process. Through natural selection, the organism best adapted to it's environment will survive to pass on its traits to offspring. Since environments vary, desirable traits also vary. There is no such thing as a "master race".

In the case of humans, our capacity for abstract thought and socialization has made us capable of surviving in almost any earth environnment. Because our survival depends on social adaptation so much more than individual traits, genetic diversity strengthens the species as a whole.

Answer 6

Survival of the fittest is based on nature not hitler

Answer 7

Hitler used the first extremist propaganda a lot like osama is using now. People got caugh tup in it. Hitler and the war machine(technology) had nothing to do with evolution. By that concept evolution is based on technology but the greeks and the roman empire(in their peak of technology and war machine) are gone. So no evolution has nothing to do with hitler.

Answer 8

Survival of the fittest means that if you (or a human group) can fit into the natural environment or the human social environment then you can survive.

Long-term, Naziism did not fit into the world human social environment (it antagonised too many peoples) so it could not survive.

The Jews, however, are survivors, as a people.

Answer 9

Hitler was a big believer in Darwinian evolution. He believed the Aryan race was more evolved and deserved to be in a ruling position. Gypsies, Poles, Russians, Jews, etc were not as evolved and deserved to die in his eyes.

Answer 10

Yes, theoretically right.
Practically, a nut.

By the way, it's wrong to associate "survival of the fittest" with darwinism. They're different concepts.