Nice try, Glenn. However, your explanation lacks any reference to moral
norms. On your (argument's) terms, Hitler was exceedingly stupid. But in
order for your explanation to succed, you must demonstrate that actions
decreasing the fitness of society as a whole are actually objectively wrong
as judged by some transcendent moral standard. You must smuggle in the
premise that "to decrease society's fitness is wrong." Whence comes this
assumption? If you reply that wrong is defined as decreasing society's
fitness, then your argument reduces to a tautology, namely 'What Hitler did
was wrong because what Hitler did was wrong."
Mike Farley
Covenant Theological Seminary