ragarth
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Could it be done if, say:
- Every Christian on the face of the earth suddenly disappeared.
- Any nation refusing to co-operate, like say, Israel --- were to be eliminated for the sake of the whole? (You know --- cut off a finger to save a hand.)
1) No, because at most christians make up 30% or so of the world population, leaving 70% of the population left, for brevity, let's make that 1/3 loss, this equates to a reduction of 2 billion people, leaving 4 billion. This fails to satisfy the logistics issue. Considering the problems we face in the US managing our massive population, having a progressive government (which I assume you assume that I assume) would be rediculous and unwieldy without more advanced technology.
2) This would still fail to bring forth results, it'd effectively decimate the world population since very few soveriegn nations are okay with having their sovereignty taken by another. It would in effect, homogenize the world, which is bad.
So to answer your immediate question, no. I assume there's a larger question behind this, phrased like this: If these are social descriptions of evolutionary processes, could they bring forth an assumed better society?
The answer to this is: No. These two options are not representative of evolutionary processes because genocide is not a normal evolutionary process. Extinction does happen, but it is very rare and usually rather random. Diversity plays a much larger role in evolution than extinction does, and diversity tends to make a more robust population, and a more robust ecosystem than homogeny.
Social groups have nothing that directly shows speciation, the closest is when a social group spawns another, but this happens too rarely for it to really count. Given the almost total lack of speciation within social groups, a core hallmark of evolutionary theory, an application of evolutionary theory to society would almost certainly destroy that society by increasing homogeny and damaging the robustness of the larger society. This is why I feel social evolution is bunk.
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