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U.S. Army for $22. In other words, he had so lost any trace of moral
comprehension that he was capable of cheating his own nation and

endangering the lives of its enlisted men. Soldiers who used these
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defective rifles had their thumbs blown off. Troops injured by
these rifles sued Morgan but lost, because in those days the courts
generally decided in favor of the robber barons. 25
When asked to build roof protection for his workers, one of
the capitalist employers of the time replied, that “men are cheaper
than shingles”—another example of the ruthlessness of those
days. 26
At the root of all this cruelty, the influence of Darwinism can
be easily discerned. A world view that regards humans as a species
of animal, and believes in the lie that some people are less devel-
oped than others, that life is a place of struggle where only might
prevails, results in ruthlessness, pitilessness and oppression.

The Social Weapon: Darwinism