Social Darwinism: An application of the metaphor of natural selection to society, or 'Mother Nature knows better', thus providing the rationale to ignore social problems, since evolution will sort it out soon enough in a million years or so. Social Darwinism is often used to justify social policies that ignore budget deficits, sectarian and religous strife, and environmental degradation, since they will all work themselves out, give or take a million years.
