Is our world really the Survival od\f the fittest?

Question

Do you think the human world is the survival of the fittest?

Answer 1

I don't think it is survival of the fittest, I know it is.  That is how it works in nature.  With all mans intelligence he thinks that someone how he above it all, but that is a lie.  All it takes is a hurricane or some other natural disaster and it doesn't take very long or very much to have man reverting back to a more primitive nature.  We are just another animal, still subject to all of the same laws and rules that apply to everything in nature and if we were to remember that we would be much better off.

Answer 2

Theoretically and in real life, those with the best skills (knowledge, social skills) and most resources (power, money, opportunities) have higher chances of succeeding. They can do what they want and they have the means to excel at it.

Whether we like it or not, that's how things are. I think it would be naive to think otherwise.

Answer 3

I can't accept that our world is  survival of the fittest, I just know there is God in it also.

Answer 4

To some extent it is but then mostly i dont think so. Natural selection refers to our ability to eat, find prey, avoid predators and ultimately reproduce. The human world or the social world is a mechanism which homo-sapiens used to succeed at this.

As we dropped from the trees we were weaker, weak compare to the neanderthals. We have infecient senses and could move fast. So in order to survive we clubbed together and developed the trait of collectivism, without this we would have long ago died off and succumbed to species like the lonesome neaderthal. Through this trait we have not only survived the neaderthal but become the most successful species on the planet. And as the law of natural selection states at the expense of so many species.

It would of course be hard to argue that we dont live in a society where the laws of the jungle dont persist. This is down to class. Elites exploit people below(the workers) and they exploit them unequally, they pay some more and some less. This is because they dont have the power to exploit a professional as easily they can a child in a textile factory in china. The dont have the knowledge to do so. Resources are thus distributed unequally not between elites and workers but to the gradiations within the working class and people just like in the jungle must fight for these resources using skills and traits.

Inequality of this type has existed for 1% of human existance before this we were very equal in tribes thus it is not an inevitable part of human world. Perhaps however it is of the modern world. So long as we distribute our resources in this way the law of the jungle(darwinism) will persist. The only modern manifestation of attempts to re-establish old equal societys such as the Soviet Union,China etc have failed. Many say this is because human society is too complex and we must always have a dominant set of administrators who will inevitably want resources for the own self interest

Answer 5

Of course it is. Its a dog eat dog world  out here. Every man for himself. Monkey in the middle. I feel like its not fair but its true.  I feel like we have to work hard to get what we want and those that work harder will always get it first. In some cases its OK, but in others its very unfair.