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294. Eugenics: Flawed Thinking Behind Pushed Science | Alex Story

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Survival of the Fittest

The Darwinian proposition is a tautology because it really means those who survive survive. It doesn't mean those who survive are most fit, except if you gerrymandered the meaning of the term fit. There's no evidence for a kind of ethical or value-laden superiority. The notion of fitness was a bad verbal choice because it implies something like moral superiority even on biological grounds.

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