by the writings of Charles Darwin and Darwinian evolutionary psychologists. In Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought, he
never proves that Darwin himself was a Social Darwinist. Hofstadter
comes close to admitting this when he says that "Darwin himself was not an
unequivocal social Darwinist" (238). Hofstadter offers direct
quotations from Darwin's Descenton only two pages of
the book (91-92). Those quotations suggest that Darwin could not have
been a Social Darwinist of the sort portrayed by Hofstadter, because they show
Darwin stressing the natural sociality of human beings and their natural moral
sense based on sympathy for the needs of their fellow human beings.
"Selfish and contentious people will not cohere," Darwin declared,
"and without coherence nothing can be effected." If Social
Darwinism is all about selfish competition, as Hofstadter and Obama would say,
then Darwin was not aover the next year without success.
Subsequently in early 2016, Wittkopf filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The debt he owed to the
state of Idaho was included in his bankruptcy and was discharged by order of the Bankruptcy
Court.
         In September 2016, Wittkopf began filing new claims for unemployment benefits with
IDOL because he worked a seasonal job and was not receiving any income in the winter months.
After not receiving benefits for several weeks, Wittkopf called IDOL on September 26, 2016.
IDOL informed Wittkopf that he was ineligible for unemployment benefits because he had failed
to pay back his overpayment, civil penalty, and interest he owed IDOL, even though those
amounts were discharged in bankruptcy. IDOL explained that it had stopped seeking to collect
this amount because of