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For this reason, the ruling classes in Britain and then the
other great states accepted Darwinism. War, therefore, was
seen as a biological necessity by the European rulers of the
time and this played a significant role in the outbreak of the
First World War.
Even worse consequences of social Darwinism appeared

in the twentieth century: Nazi Germany and fascism. The
Nazis, considering man to be an advanced species of animal
did not mind rising to power by trampling on the weak, they
did not hesitate to eliminate the sick or weak by whatever
means necessary, and they did not refrain from murdering

and destroying races considered different or inferior. This
was possible because they believed in a theory disguised in a
scientific veneer which persuaded them that they were acting
according to the laws of nature.
Amore widespread consequence of social Darwinism
has manifested itself in the form of the moral degeneration

which affects most modern societies. The Darwinist social
structure, founded on the basis of competition and pitiless-
ness produces a world-view with no regard for morality and
hence, communities that consider themselves and the rest of

mankind to be a species of advanced animal. Darwinist ideol-
ogy regards individual self-interest as the only thing that
matters; it regards self-sacrifice to be appropriate only where
it is in the interest of the individual to do so, and that to do
otherwise is against human nature. This misleading ideology
has given rise to a culture where every kind of selfishness

and aggression is deemed justifiable.
The propagators of this culture make frequent references
to Darwinism. That to be selfish and ruthless is proper is an