Got into a discussion with a friend who is a biologist about the “human nature” argument against communism. My best shot was saying that we used to live in a sort of proto communism so the evidence of it working are there. He didn’t accept that argument and basicly said that due to natural selection, competition etc. and that all social structures eventually disolve.
I didn’t have good ideas on how to respond after that.
EDIT: Forgot the question, how could I have defended this argument more?
EDIT2: I read each and every comment anyone posts, I just can’t respond to all of you, thanks so much for the explanations it really goes to show how awesome this community is.
Even if this were true from a biological point of view, and even if we claim humans have been beholden to Darwinian natural selection after the dawn of civilization, we have to define what “strong” means in this context. Put simply, it means an organism survived long enough to reach sexual maturity. For humans, let’s be generous and say that’s 20 years old. Everything that happens after that is irrelevant. Humans have a 50% lifetime chance of developing cancer. Pretty shitty odds if you ask me, maybe evolution should have sorted that out. But it can’t, because most cancers develop well after our reproductive years.