Darwin, Applied

I’ve decided to kill my next door neighbor. It’s nothing personal, in fact, I kind of like the guy, but you do what you have to do. I’ll probably kill his wife, too. She’s a nice person. She works at the VA hospital, in the Lab. Does a lot of blood testing, the stuff they do with your blood after they take about three or four quarts out of you, using that rusty piece of oilfield pipe that they call a needle. Nothing personal there, either.

He has a bass boat. A pretty nice one, actually. He custom builds kitchen cabinets and such. He’s real good at what he does, which is why he has the bass boat. I suppose I could buy one, but, if I did, then I wouldn’t have money for other things. He has the bass boat and a larger pickup than I do, but then he needs it to tow the boat with.

It all has to do with that morality thing. I figured it out. All the talk I’ve heard through the years, about morality and ethics, doesn’t really mean anything. I figured that out this December, when that winter holiday was coming. Oh, I won’t mention the name, I know someone is likely to get offended and sue me. Not that I really care, if someone tried to sue me, I’d probably kill whoever it was. After all, there’s nothing immoral about killing someone that gets in your way.

Morality is situational, as is ethics. The basic rule of thumb is, if it feels good, do it. Speaking of doing it, I think I’ll rape my next door neighbor’s daughter, after I kill him and his wife, and steal his bass boat and pickup truck. My wife might get upset, but that’s tough. She can get over it, or I might kill her, too.

We are born, we live 70 years or so, some longer, some shorter, and then we die. We are an accident in the first place. A few million years ago, in a primordial soup, lightening and chemicals came together and started life by accident. Then we started the whole process of evolution, with a lot of mistakes and dead end trails in the pathway between that first living cell and what we are now. Yeah, we evolved. And the rules of the game boil down to one. Survival of the fittest. The only question these day7s is, who is the
fittest? Well, I have more guns than anyone else in the neighborhood does, so I guess I’m the fittest.

This Darwin guy got it all figured out, when he wrote his “Law of Evolution”. Oh, I know, it’s only supposed to be a theory, not a law, and more of a hypothesis than a theory, but everyone thinks it’s a law, so who am I to argue. Especially since I have lots of ammunition.

Hitler believed in Darwin. That’s why he got rid of the Jews, the Gypsy’s, and the mentally feeble. After all, they were not as fit as the Master Race, actually they were subhuman, so who cared. Survival of the fittest. Don’t know why we fought them in WW2. All Hitler did was apply Darwin to the Master Race, and followed the logic to its inevitable conclusion.

Lenin and Stalin felt the same way. Their combined situational morality led to the cleansing of the Soviet Union, to the tune of better than thirty million people. Now there was an effective use of survival of the fittest, along with adapting morality and ethics to the situation. After all, morality isn’t a hard and fast rule, it’s situational. And the situation is always based on the rule of Darwin.

Survival of the fittest. Nowadays, with guns, and bombs, and rockets, and numerous other nifty ways to cause havoc on other human beings, both wholesale and retail, that survival has become precarious indeed. But hey, if you’re one of the 90% dead in the first global nuclear war, it just means that you weren’t one of the fittest. Too bad.

When you apply the logic of Darwin to politics, it all makes sense. Survival of the fittest. In politics, that means being elected and then staying elected. So, if you need to make promises you won’t keep, lie about your opponents, kiss butts for votes, and cheat and steal to stay in office, then you do it. Survival. That’s the only thing that matters, and morality and ethics are whatever you say they are.

Morality, as I keep saying, is situational. The definition changes with hatever is happening at the moment. Break into your opponent’s offices? It’s moral, if it means getting re-elected. Covering up the death of an employee? No problem, apply situational ethics, and lie until you’re re-elected. Caught with yours pants around your ankles on the job? Situational morality, and you deserve the pleasure. You get where you are by lying, cheating, and stealing better than your opponents. Survival of the fittest. And you earned the perks that go along with crushing those that are weaker than you, or controlling them, or turning them into fawning sycophants ready and willing to kiss your butt cheeks for a favor.

No. I won’t kill my neighbor. Or his wife. And I won’t touch his daughter. Or steal his property. My morality isn’t situational. Neither is my ethics. See, they didn’t come from Darwin. They came from an earlier time. Murder, theft, adultery, coveting my neighbor’s stuff all of that came from a place Darwin ignored, when he came up with his hypothesis. Those standards of moral behavior were carved on a stone on a mountaintop, in front of an old guy by the name of Moses. The thing is, God set some tough standards. His Son spelled out some behavior requirements, too. Problem is, you can’t follow those standards of morality and ethics these days in this world. Oh, you can, but there are those that despise and fear such standards, because they know that they can’t meet them. So their only alternative is to attack the absolutes by attacking God. Christianity must go, along with anything that can remind anyone of Christianity. We weathered an attack in December. Look for the next to occur a little closer to Easter. And it will happen. In a school, in a public square, on a street. Someone, an atheist, a Muslim, an ACLU member who’s behind on his payments for his Porsche will take offense and start the next battle.

Which side will you be on? Darwin, and situational morality? Or one with the Risen Savior?

Copyright January 2, 2006 by Dave Hoffman
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