population reduction being pushed now

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  Social Darwinism is not synonymous with genocide or eugenics, which are human-directed. Evolution, as described by Darwin, is a natural process.

  I don't think you have done your homework, BizzyBee. You seem to be voicing your own assumptions on this without putting forth any effort to really understand the subject matter.

  Despite the fact that social Darwinism bears Charles Darwin's name, it is also linked today with others,

  notably Herbert Spencer , Thomas Malthus, and Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics. In fact Spencer

  was not described as a social Darwinist until the 1930s, long after his death. [3]

  "Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the

  breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is

  surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a

  domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to

  allow his worst animals to breed." Darwin 1882

  Another of these social interpretations of Darwin's biological views, later known as eugenics, was put

  forth by Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, in 1865 and 1869. Galton argued that just as physical traits were

  clearly inherited among generations of people, so could be said for mental qualities (genius and talent).

  Galton argued that social morals needed to change so that heredity was a conscious decision, in order to

  avoid over-breeding by "less fit" members of society and the under-breeding of the "more fit" ones.

  In Galton's view, social institutions such as welfare and insane asylums were allowing "inferior" humans to

  survive and reproduce at levels faster than the more "superior" humans in respectable society, and if

  corrections were not soon taken, society would be awash with "inferiors."

  Social Darwinism is distinct from other theories of social change because of the way it draws Darwin's

  distinctive ideas from the field of biology into social studies.