I am not surprised that you are unaware of Darwin's comments from The Descent of Man, because few people are. This is by design.
No, it's because there is nothing wrong with them. As you already admit, but didn't have the honesty to show, Darwin continues with:
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.
Secularists have sold us a mild mannered Charles Darwin who would not hurt a fly. In truth, he was a cold blooded killer. He might not have closed the door and turned on the gas, but he is just as guilty as those who did.
Right after you hide his own words that explicitly say that our compassion for everyone is the noblest part of our nature, and then continues by saying that we are not even to say anything against any bad effects (much less hurt anyone physically), you somehow say he's guilty of doing exactly what he says we must not do? My irony meter is broken!
The bottom line here is that this is a common creationist quote mine - where you, by using a partial quote (which even itself says nothing wrong), make a whole bunch of completely false accusations. You even knew it was a quote mine, because you knew of the rest of the quote, alluding to it here:
Some may argue that in later paragraphs, Darwin walked back this suggestion of mass murder. You don't get to walk back such barbaric statements. Not in 1871, not now, not ever!
There are no barbaric statements. He never suggested mass murder - quite the opposite, he extolled our compassion. You called Darwin a "cold blooded killer", when he certainly didn't kill anyone. Quote mining is a way of lying, leaving you to talk about your behavior in light of our 8th commandment with God.
Even if one is a complete YEC creationist, lying like this doesn't help anyone, and only feeds the common view that creationists lie.
What's next, the eye quote mine?
In Christ-
Papias
P. S.
can you provide a citation for this? i don't think darwin wrote what you seem to think he did.
Right. He provided a selectively edited quote mine. If he had provided a citation, it would have been easy to see this deception. It like saying that the Bible says "
There is no God"! Ps 14:1
The whole verse actually reads:
Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds;
there is no one who does good.