[deanhills]

Some great thoughts there @fitkoh. I myself think that the weak are sometimes nurtured at the expense of the strong. Looking at the medical profession, so many resources are spent, sometimes along experimental lines, on curing the weak, even when they know they may not be able to look after themselves ever if the patient survived. So the fittest still get ahead in spite of that.

I guess there is a measure of ethics at play here. That "learned" consciousness of doing good vs being evil or doing bad deeds. Doing good includes saving the weak and usually being evil is seen as being strong and fit - rarely weak. I guess the nurturing part of human beings is less than perfect and can be self-destructive.