Individuals like Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler have used Social Darwinism to defend their views about the world. Even though these individuals have dramatic differences in their viewpoints, it is possible to use Social Darwinism in their defense. The whole idea around Darwinism is that the strong will survive. Karl Marx focused on capitalism, business, and the “powerful.” In the business world, if one is weak than he or she will not rise in success up the social ladder. To him, those who are powerful repress the powerless in the form of having a higher social status than the “common man.” On the other side of the spectrum, as unstable as Hitler was,

When it comes to morality and American foreign policy, I feel that it is important to recognize the essence of humanity. One can easily go to Darwin’s theory stating that the strong survive. Yet true to an extent, every person on this Earth is a human being and that the universal trait of all individuals. One should take into consideration morality when composing a foreign policy. It is not the underdeveloped nation’s populations fault for living they way that they do. Yes, the United States as well as other nations makes endless attempts to help these countries, yet I feel that it might not be in the right way. As a citizen of the United States, I for one know what my individual rights and freedoms I possess. To go into a country that had some to virtually no rights at all and try to change it overnight is something that I feel is not right. Instead of being imperialistic, I feel that the United States as well as others should put an effort in to educate these underdeveloped civilizations about how things can be and not “should be.” So if I were left to make a foreign policy involving an underdeveloped country, I would not go in and try to destroy everything I could. I would go in and see what can be salvaged f

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