Survival of The Fittest!
Sometimes, we need to face the ugly truth which says that survival is only for the fittest or the strongest. In fact, this is animal's rule to live and this is why it's so hard for humans to imagine that it's applicable to them as well. I don't know how a person thinks of extorting a weaker person or exploiting him/her just because they don't have the same stress, power or money. I am really dreaming of a world where every person is compassionate, sympathetic and caring about the other. I am dreaming of a world where no place for hunger, poverty and suffering under the powerful high-class people.
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Survival of The Fittest!
Sometimes, we need to face the ugly truth which says that survival is only for the fittest or the strongest. In fact, this is how animals live and this is why it's so dangerous for humans to imagine that it's applicable to them as well*. I don't know how a person thinks of extorting a weaker person or exploiting him/her just because they don't have the same stress**, power or money. I am really dreaming of a world where every person is compassionate, sympathetic and caring about each other. I am dreaming of a world where there is no place for hunger, poverty and suffering under the powerful high-class people.*=I'm not 100% sure I have interpreted your meaning in this I'm afraid. Does it sound right?
**=I don't think this is the word you want. Status perhaps? That would be a pretty good fit with the rest of the sentence
Possibly you know this already, but when the phrase "the survival of the fittest" was coined by early evolutionists, trying to figure out how life had adapted over time, fit had a slightly different meaning - it meant something was adapted or suitable for its situation (it's number 9 on this page http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fit ) so all the phrase meant was "plants or animals that are well adapted to the place they are living are more likely to survive and make babies than those who aren't". So a giraffe with a long neck can reach leaves more easily than one with a short neck, but if that same giraffe suddenly appeared in the Arctic or 500m below the ocean surface would be in trouble because it isn't fit for that environment. As time has worn on, and as the theory of evolution has been discussed by people with crude understandings two things have happened. Firstly, "fittest" has come to mean strongest and best (ergo humans see themselves as better than other animals and some humans better than other humans) and secondly, some people think that the theory is not a description of the world as it is but is an actual moral code, dictating how it should be and that humans (or some humans) should treat animals (or other humans) as lesser and worthy of contempt. And that's a grave error, as history teaches us.
Sorry, I am rambling on. I thought it worth pointing out though, that not everyone who uses the phrase "survival of the fittest" is bad! I agree with everything you've said though and sorry if I have bored you with what my daughter would call a "nerd lecture"
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