Looking at historical documents, it seems to me that “kill everyone who resists, and install a puppet government” (the Western countries recently) is an improvement over “kill everyone who resists, and make the survivors learn your language and your version of history” (Russia today, and the Western countries a century or more ago) which is an improvement over “”kill everyone who resists, sell everyone else as a slave” (e.g. the ancient Greek city states) which was an improvement over “kill everyone, except for a few young women whom you decide to keep as sex slaves after you raped them” (the Old Testament, and probably everyone before them).
obviously the very concept of survival of the fittest is one that does not even come into play until the 18th and 19th centuries
The theory is new. But the practice… was already practiced by chimpanzees.
Looking at historical documents, it seems to me that “kill everyone who resists, and install a puppet government” (the Western countries recently) is an improvement over “kill everyone who resists, and make the survivors learn your language and your version of history” (Russia today, and the Western countries a century or more ago) which is an improvement over “”kill everyone who resists, sell everyone else as a slave” (e.g. the ancient Greek city states) which was an improvement over “kill everyone, except for a few young women whom you decide to keep as sex slaves after you raped them” (the Old Testament, and probably everyone before them).
The theory is new. But the practice… was already practiced by chimpanzees.