Page 57 - The Dark Clan

55

Social Darwinism And The Dark Clan

in history. Pinker went even further in his perverse assertion
by claiming that this kind of killing was an evolutionary neces-
sity:
Mammals are extreme among animals in the amount of
time, energy and food they invest in their young, and hu-
mans are extreme among mammals. Parental investment is
a limited resource, and mammalian mothers must "decide"
whether to allot it to their newborn or to their current and
future offspring. If a newborn is sickly, or if its survival is
not promising, they may cut their losses and favor the
healthiest in the litter or try again later on. 17
According to Pinker, this neonaticide is part of our ge-

netic makeup and can resurface where the mother considers
it risky to give birth. In other words, these American high
school girls who had carried their babies in their bellies and
then cruelly murdered their own children, according to
Pinker had displayed "genetic behaviour" in keeping with
the rules of evolution.
In brief, Pinker regarded these baby murders as natural

from a Darwinist point of view. Michael Kelly wrote in the
Washington Post an article entitled "Arguing for Infanticide"
in which he said, "Steven Pinker . . . did not go quite so far as
to openly recommend the murder of infants… But close
enough, close enough." 18
One part of Pinker's unscientific argument, which was
nothing more than Darwinist speculation, was especially in-
teresting, namely, that in primitive societies infanticide was
practised too. Yes, there were many pagan nations which

practised infanticide, but the reason for this was not as Pinker
claimed an evolutionary tendency, but their deranged moral-
ity. Pagans were sacrificing children to their imaginary gods