Marginalization

Marginalization or marginalisation (UK) refers to the overt actions or general tendency of human societies whereby those perceived as being without desirability or function are removed or excluded (or "marginalized") from existing systems of protectionism and integration, thereby limiting their opportunities and means for survival. Marginalization has aspects in economic and political debate; of which some incarnations and policies are fundamentally based on a principle of marginalization. Marginalization may manifest as genocide at one extreme end, to simple economic and social hardships at the individual level.

In terms of free will, and self determination, (often used euphemistically in the West as praise for a perceived 'innate survivability' of Western ways) marginalization comes in two distinct forms; by the chosen action of the marginalized, and by the wants of the society. At the extreme end, those in the Third World, under impoverished conditions, through no choice of their own, being far removed from the protectionism that exists for people in the First World, are often left to die due to hunger, disease, and war. Within the First World, low-income drug addicts stand out as being the most marginalized. The deliberate or chosen marginalization of people carries with it aspects of social Darwinism, and eugenics theory; and these often have specific terms. The macroscopic, society-driven aspects of marginalization are neutrally best described as "marginalization", though these aspects also may have their own terms.

In the context of the term "marginalization," common subjective terms can be better defined: "War," in essence is the incarnation of a macroscopic social violence, aimed at the marginalization of a perceived enemy. "Enemy" in essence is the personification of a peer as posing a threat of marginalization; hence, either by "their own choosing", or by a choice of targeted aggression, the "enemy" is a marginalized entity. Human marginalization is at the core of all general social conflict issues, which in themselves have various terms for their aspects and incarnations: Racism, ethnism], .... etc. Eugenics was the name given to a set of "science"-based ideas that advocated for the marginalization (killing and deportation) of people deemed "inferior," by criteria of their race alone.

Natural selection

See Natural selection The selection of species for survival occurs in nature, and to the aspect by which unsuited populations face extinction, the term "marginalization" can sometimes be used; though it tends to imply a deliberate intent.

Social Darwinism

See main article: Social Darwinism Social Darwinism in essence describes the policy of (or tendency to thus form) deliberate marginalization of minorities.

Conservatism and marginalization

The views of some people, often described as "conservative philosophy" are based on a concept that marginalization of other peoples is both a fact of life and therefore a necessary act. This view arises from the traditional and survivalist perception that 'limited resources means to limited supportability;' therefore 'by definition, self-preservation is inherently marginalizing' toward others. In essence, this relativist aspect of conservative thought extends from the individualist claim that 'better they perish than than I perish,' which itself scales by ethnic boundaries to the collectivist view of 'better they perish than we perish.'

"Conservatism" is a very subjective political term, has subsequently any number of variants; many conservatives describe themselves as "practicalists" and among those there are differing views of human marginalization as "practical" or not, depending on the context allowed in the hypothesis. Thus, for the above description, "conservatism" refers to those general political views which claim that human conflicts are unavoidable, and the circumstances on which those conflicts are based are unchangeable.