Survival of the Helpful

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The only way a group, culture, or nation, or species survives in the long term is through mutually beneficial relationships between its members. Taking care of your own kind, healing your sick, and strengthening your weak is the only way your own kind survives, thrives, and outpaces your competitors.

    Competition is a good thing, but when you turn competition into solely a fend-for-yourself free-for-all and let members of your own kind drown or fall through the cracks, your whole group loses in the end. You can toughen people up, keep healthy and mutually beneficial competition that makes a thriving marketplace of goods, services, and ideas, and teach the necessary lessons someone needs to learn for a well-rounded life without letting them slip into society pitfalls and through the cracks of your safety nets and end up homeless or even die.

    Mutually beneficial, altruistic relationships coupled with healthy competition that brings everyone in the group up, even the lowest in it, is a much healthier, much more sustainable approach to the human condition then the social darwinistic, "fend for yourself and if you are weak, sick, or poor, tough shit. You are lower on the food chain," ideology of an approach to a marketplace or social contract/arrangement. 

       That arrangement is the arrangement you have when human predators run the show. When the remnants of the type of thinking that drove nazism and fascism are the ones pulling the strings. You don't want that. That's how millions of innocent people die and get murdered. When social darwinism is the governing social mentality, you end up having people of intelligence or giftedness of many sorts being murdered or crippled before they can even get the chance to contribute to the world. 

       This, naturally, hinders the advancement of a species. Survival of both an individual and a species is much better ensured by helpful mutualism and altruism then the "fend for yourself" "survival of the fittest" mentality of people who prey on their own kind.

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