What do you think about the survival of the fittest?

Question

i mean if it was true wouldn't we all be like cavemen.

Answer 1

I think it makes sense

But I also believe there's hope for the weak

Because if you think about weaker and more fragile animals.. like Butterflies for example

They are small and easily crushed and what not..but they still survive

You see A LOT of them around

It's true that the fitter have a more likely chance to survival and a good living, but the weak have their chance as well

The fit can do the strenuous work..but to do the brainwork..you don't really need to be the biggest or strongest..just quick mentally

And we can usually differentiate that the "nerds" [the people with quicker minds] are not strenuous like the jocks who are all athletes and strong

So can you really say Survival Of the Fittest?

Or would the fittest include smart people as well?

I agree with it, but i think for nowadays.. that might be too broad of a description  

Answer 2

I am fit and therefore I will survive longer than an unfit human.

Answer 3

I think it was a dork stupid idea of an ignorant of the truth, Charles Darwin. In reality, it only applies to animals and plants. In term of humans, applies:

1.survival of the smartest

2.survival of the prettiest

3.survival of the most rich

Answer 4

Its a law of nature, and humans are animals just like all others.

Lucky for us, its our intelligence that has made us the "fittest".

Answer 5

It is a good philosophy and eventually we will revert back to that.  There will come a time when it simply is not feasible, economically or otherwise, to keep every sick or old person alive past the time when they should be dead.  Humans are the only animals on the face of the planet that strives to keep the dead alive for no purpose.

Answer 6

It's because of survival of the fittest that we're not cavemen.  The fittest designed tools, homes, farming and all the other aspect of high civilization.  The unfit soon became extinct.... where's the Neanderthals these days???

Answer 7

I know many theists who aren't much smarter...

Answer 8

Survival of the fittest dictates how a species is able to survive.

In many species only the strongest, fittest are allowed to reproduce. The weak are forced away, which allows for stronger genes to passed to the next generation. Some species just die out since they can't adapt to their environment. Humans have been able to survive and evolve, not because we are strong, but because we are clever, and have a strong will to survive.

The term originated in the 1800's with Darwin's theory of evolution.

Answer 9

...no, it only means i rule my domain...

Answer 10

Survival of the fittest is no longer relevant in this age of technology... it's survival of the best armed most technically capable. A marine sniper armed with an M40A3 and typical field gear is the most deadly human in the world. You can be taken out from 1000 yards (even in the dark) and never even hear the shot.

Answer 11

I don't know how you feel about it, but survival of the fittest means millions of humans and billions of mammals and trillions of animals all worked hard to get to be ... ME!

Answer 12

Darwin had it right as to the idea of survival in the animal kingdom. Even in our lives it has meaning for as we evolve we are always up lifting our health by continued development in the sciences. We like to take credit for this but it is really all a part of the Davine plan for up lifting the species. But this is not well received for man is full of pride and a strong sense of self. Back to survival of the fattest's.

Answer 13

"Survival of the fittest" does seem to imply "survival of the meanest."

However, it also implies "survival of the prettiest" and "survival of the ones who raise the most children to reproductive success."

Further, with the advent of technology, it can mean "survival of the smartest."  This has recently been documented in Ashkenazim Jewish populations of the last 1,000 years, in which such people were given only certain kinds of work, which often involved smartness.  Those Jews who were smartest had significantly more children, and so today Ashkenazim are significantly smarter than the population of non-Jews which enforced that regime on the Jews.

"Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov,

"Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet,

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, and

"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis, would likely be worthwhile.

Answer 14

"Fit" for humans means intelligence.