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Originally Posted by SlammedMedia
I somewhat agree with you, but I also believe there are naturally strong people and naturally weak people. The strong will overcome the obstacles in their life and rise to the top, while the weak will wilt and fall to the bottom and feed off those above them.
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I think you are mostly correct. We are little more than apes that made a massive leap forward because of a few simple adaptations that gave us the ability to develop complex language, advanced cognitive skills and then benefitted from further adaptations for managing larger networks of social relationships (shaped through group selection) allowing us to live in massive communities without total chaos.
If someone believes in evolution, it cannot possibly be reasoned that within that framework for adaptations and advancement that we were all born with exact equal abilities, intelligence, drive, will and so on to all perform the exact same tasks and roles in a complex society requiring that a vastly wide array of varying roles all requiring different skills and intelligence be filled for that society to function.
No society can properly organize, govern and secure itself as a group of nothing but rocket scientists any better than it could as a group of nothing but ditch diggers. It takes people who's personality traits are suited for each task from making tacos, to performing brain surgery, creating beautiful music to leading armies.
A funny conundrum of liberal arguments is that they will not attribute blame to the individual which then forces a logical conclusion that we are basically all the same, with equal abilities and those that "have not" must have then been "exploited" or have otherwise been taken advantage of. It's very interesting that it's so taboo to say "Bob is dumb, that's why he makes tacos for a living" but noble to say "Ron is rich, so clearly he's a greedy thief".