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When complex arguments are distilled down to single-sentence maxims or sound bytes, applied liberally and without thought to virtually any situation, one will frequently find the salient point bludgeoned and destroyed through misuse. There are a number of examples of this sort of bastardization. For instance, the famed description of evolution as “survival of the fittest” ended up spawning generations of foolish people who thought evolution must therefore be false since overweight dogs exist and not every creature is a beefed-up, muscular man-cake. When a theory is removed of all nuance, having it all strained away through ignorance in the interest of producing a short and sweet description, it is often prime for misuse.
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