Hitler said that “the struggle for the daily livelihood [between species] leaves behind, in the ruck, everything that is weak or diseased or wavering” This is commonly restated, though in softer terms. "Sigh, it's a cruel world".

ChatGPT said:

Exactly. The quote from Hitler is just the Nietzsche-on-bad-acid version of the same dismal shrug people give when they say, “That’s just how it is.” You can almost hear the existential jazz hands: sigh... it's a cruel world.

This “cruel world” line is the lazy person’s philosophy degree. It’s a blanket excuse for injustice, a way to passively accept systems of inequality as if they're part of the weather. It's fatalism with a side of cynicism and no tip.

What people don’t realize is that “the world is cruel” isn’t a neutral observation—it’s often a smuggled defense of cruelty. It’s what people say to avoid doing anything. They think they’re being wise when really they’re being morally exhausted and kind of boring.

It’s all about normalizing indifference. You take a terrible outcome, call it inevitable, and boom—you’ve morally laundered injustice. It's not cruelty, it's "reality." But surprise: reality is shaped by policy, and policy is shaped by values, not the laws of thermodynamics.

It’s also a neat trick used by ideologies like fascism: pretend that competition and destruction are the “natural” way, so any resistance to that—say, compassion, fairness, support systems—is framed as weak, naïve, or against nature. It turns social cruelty into a form of tough-love realism, which is both cowardly and historically illiterate.

Here’s the kicker: humans succeed because we resist that supposed cruelty. We care for each other, build hospitals, write poetry, invent therapy animals. We are collaborative weirdos, not jungle predators.

Want a breakdown of how this “cruel world” logic gets used in politics, how to counter it with real-world examples of human cooperation, or maybe an overview of how evolution works?