survival of the fittest

[Scythe13]

This is an interesting thought. I think it was HL that said, last year, that our natural survival instinct has been dulled. I would tend to agree with that.

But to make a comparrison with a third world country, they don't tend to live into their 40's even in times of plenty. As Rowanda and Zimbabwe have shown, when stuff goes wrong, it goes crazy! I don't think the UK could get like that, because we would be better equipped to grow our own stuff.

As for survival of the fittest; Darwin listed 8 or 9 attributes, fittest, strongest, most intelligent, fastest to adapt, etc. I think ignoring this whole list makes a person fail on the Intelligence characteristic for sure. Same as neglecting an element of the list, regardless of what that element is.

As we all know, survival is an individual thing, and on a long enough timeline, our survival odds are reduced to zero anyway. As an individual, I believe it is best to develop ourselves as much as possible. Will other people survive? Sure. But I care more about my personal survival, and so I work best to learn how to survive. That just happens to be how the ancients of this country survived. So best I learn those techniques.

If a tribal person came over here to survive, the different weather, fauna and floura would not allow the person much local knowledge. He would know the skills, but not necessarily be able to transfer them quickly enough to survive, e.g. Loincloth vs British winter.