Bartholomew,

I agree (for what that's worth.

With apologies to that lovers of that foundation of competition, Social Darwinism:

Competition appears to be a very human and mostly cultural idea. Looking at nature, cooperation is the rule and its been fairly well established (If you believe life evolved from the primal ooze) that symbiosis was probably how the first cell got started.

Survival of the Fittest isn't well supported by observation. On its face, it's a little silly. How do you know the fittest survived? Because he survived. Duh!

The theory would tend to lead (logically) to a less diverse population. The opposite is true. Many religions have cooperation as a primary tenet, no matter how hedged with "excepts".

Regards,

John