The trouble with social Darwinism is that Society is not quite like Nature. In Nature, the fittest survive to reproduce, keeping their more-fit genes in the gene pool of their species. The unfit die off without reproducing. But in human society, those who are not the most fit do not die off, removing themselves from the landscape and their genes from the gene pool. Those that can't compete economically with the most successful accumulators of wealth, resource, and power--all of which attract... Sign in to see full entry.