Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't exist anymore. Technology has made it so that any fat **** with zero discipline can demolish a country with the push of a button.
You're looking at fitness backward. You aren't fit because you match some ideal, you are fit because your survive. That's the entirety of it (except that you must have kids). There is very little optimization in evolution, generally if a trait doesn't straight up kill you it doesn't count against your evolutionary fitness.
The most you could say is that technology killed natural selection but even that is blatantly untrue.
If China (or anyone else) attacks, this needs to be the response:
Originally posted by Wild Shadow
i think being out of shape kinda works when thinning the herd in combat.. i mean if your in a ground battle and you are to out of shape to respond quickly and decisively your gonna get shot trying to run, duck get cover or respond 1st..
Another way to thin the herd would be to create a job where you have to go around and get shot at then see who signs up.
Yes, people who try to jam the common definition of fitness into evolution claim that <insert group here> is the best.
The phrase "survival of the fittest" is a tautology not a prediction. In other words, it doesn't mean "those who are fit survive" it means "those who survive are fit".
Sickle cell anemia makes you unfit by any predictable measurement, but the genes for it survive in Africa because it makes you immune to malaria.
I must say it is very, VERY possible but fairly unlikely. An attack on India would probably cause a major war that would involve the other Western Allies- including the US- which- amongst other things- conveniently has naval supremacy off China's coast and has a military that is on the whole far better equipped and trained than the PLA.
In my opinion, the best comparison to China today is Imperial Germany in WWI: perhaps the single strongest power in the region that would likely be able to defeat any one of its enemies (save perhaps the US or India) but which would get severely worn down and ultimately defeated in a prolonged war against a large alliance.
Granted, I DO think the Chinese are going to try SOMETHING to become the dominance global power (their naval arms race with the West and their support of Burma and North Korea's dictatorships cannot be for nothing), but I think even they would hesitate at such an undertaking.
the only reason certain ppl with undesired traits are alive now is b/c of the society we live in and the laws designed to protect the weak..
might as well say a handicap person is fit b/c his disability grants him favoritism and care from those around them
just b/c a fat or scrawly @$$hole can prosper in our society doesnt mean he is fit or is meant to have survived.
Looking at the actual human race and our abilities, physical characteristics are not the reason why we've survived, anyway. It's due entirely to our intelligence.
So, frankly, if a fat or scrawny ******* also happens to be really, really smart, then he's probably more "tough" from an evolutionary standpoint then that army commando with the perfect physical body.
its not they are smart? its that they are dishonest lying cheating manipulative a$$holes.. i think those are horrible traits to pass on but if a person is ever caught doing that to another man he better be ready and able to fight..
but i think it takes more then just having the mind but the body as well... also how many societies in history have rewarded such traits as the norm..
usually the masses tend to over throw such ppl