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Originally posted by Spritebox
In our modern society, survival of the fittest doesn't mean the fittest hunters, but the people with the most common sense and intellect to survive
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A very valid agruement....
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(i.e.,make enough money to live on).
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however you faltered there. Money have no relevence on survival at a whole. The ability to think and use common sense to get you to a goal is the way of life now. A poor man will only be poor as long as he sits, complains, and does nothing about the fact of him being poor. Once he gets up and does something about it he has a better chance to succeed.
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Therefore, if one applied the natural selection to humans today, those who are in a permanent state of poverty should be dismissed so that the rest of us may flourish.
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Dismisal is ignorance, ignorance is bliss, bliss is a false livelihood. If you simply dismiss the fact that your fellow man is in need, then you are dismissing yourself as man. Man's overwhelming compassion for his fellow has always dragged him behind, but in the same manner has helped him thrive.
I do believe that we should all help eachother, but not in the same way that it is being done now.
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I've though about a world in which the sick would die - no hospitals or perscriptions. A world in which the poor would die out without the assistance of welfare.
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Physical evolution died the moment we became "civilized". Albiet some small changes in evolution have occured, society will never rid itself of deseases that would have worked their way out of the pool if only allowed.
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I really don't know whether or not that world would be for better or for worse...But natural selection would apply to humans once again, since we seem to be so goddamn evasive of its grasp.
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Very well said.
Oob