Re: survival of the fittest
Peace bro ajazali
Nice topic … I had a view about ‘survival of the fittest’ in the past now a bit more refined … This phrase should have two meanings … The scientific intent of this is an observation … That through time the things that have survived were generally fitter than their counterparts and threats … It is a statement relating to a trend. This is always true.
Now, the secondary meaning is taken from its application … That people seeing trends will want to advantage themselves and disadvantage others - selfishness … This is a strategy rather than a trend, where people see what happens in nature and mimic that for their own interests … And usually those interests are immediately serving.
So this is the thought process … “Since survival of the fittest, and we want to survive therefore we will be fittest” …
The Bible talks about life and death as metaphors for survival in the Hereafter and damnation in the Hereafter respectively. So the word “fittest” in that context infers how to be the best people, which leads on to morality and ethics. Since the modern world only talks about what it can see and fathom … “fittest” is now taking a turn towards material and biological fitness, this path does not take us into the realms of morality and ethics.
What animals and nature does is there … For us to see … We can either be like that or unlike that … The other fact of life and human history is that there has never been a 1000 year Reich … No order has sustained itself for 1000 years without changing hands. Usually the downfall of nations come when they become proud and arrogant … So current powers despite how it may seem are on their down turn. So that is the bigger picture.
In answer to people who think charity givers such as the non-religious are to b praised more than religious is totally wrong.
Principle of charity is not amount … It is to give away an amount that you need … Charity is linked to sacrifice. Irreligious people will never give away what they need unless it is out of true love. Also, global charity and aid given through UN and other means is a way to subdue governments of other nations. So true charity is not met … For if they were concerned for charity they would not be concerned at all of interest … Interest is the opposite of charity and anyone taking interest or thinks it is fair is like the opposite of a charitable person, which is not a miser … It is worse.
Peace psyah,
Survival of the fittest as behavior is somewhat natural but, religiously we cannot even make it an excuse to survive at the cost of lives of the others.