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 Life and evolution is one huge battle of races. Lifeforms emerge, fight for domination and expand or exterminate based on fitness, and that's the cycle of life. So, what's your meaning? Obviously, //your// target is to expand your kind, your //personal// DNA as much as you can! You see, life is a fight! You, personally, are competing with every other strain of DNA, so you must find the best, most fertile, most //fruitful// partner that you can get, because if you don't then you go extinct, and that's disgraceful. Without your genes passed on, you are worthless. [[Spook|You LOSE]](([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ|Good day, Sir!]])), against everyone else who successfully passes on their DNA.
-All those other humans around you, your [[Friend|friends]] and foes? They're all RIVALS, whenever something good happens to them it is BAD to YOU because it reduces your chances of MATING. Life is a [[zero sum]] game! You can't have friends. Unless you help each other improve your odds of mating, of course. [[Rape]]? Perfectly fine, you're just trying to pass on your genes. Hold still already, [[woman]], and serve your function!((Geez I usually like pointed arguments, but this one is tough even for me.))((Don’t worry, all, I’m MOSTLY sure he’s being satirical! (See the previous footnote and the following paragraphs) -[[User:Piouslittlechristiangirl|PLCG]]))
+All those other humans around you, your [[Friend|friends]] and foes? They're all RIVALS, whenever something good happens to them it is BAD to YOU because it reduces your chances of MATING. Life is a [[zero sum]] game! You can't have friends. Unless you help each other improve your odds of mating, of course. If it's about reproduction and DNA then [[rape]] would be A-OK. Obviously, rape is NOT ok. This right here used to have a funny joke but people didn't like the joke, so fuck you! :>
-It should be clear that this is a strawman. Proponents of the "life is a competition (of genes)" idea will most likely not hold this position (even though they really should if they believe in it). Yes, you //can// look at life through the lens of survival of the fittest, and you will find that many things will suddenly make a lot of sense, but 1) many other things will not and 2) this doesn't mean life //is// survival of the fittest. For contrast, you can look at life through the lens of class struggle. The fight of the burgeoisie to suppress us, the worker proletariats. Or through the lens of empathy. Or through the lens of races, black versus white. Many things will make sense when you look at life from that perfective, but many things will not, and it //definitely// doesn't mean that any of this //is// the meaning of life.
+Even proponents of the "life is a competition (of genes)" idea will most likely not believe that rape is OK (even though they really should if they believe in life being about reproduction). Ultimately - Yes, you //can// look at life through the lens of survival of the fittest, and you will find that many things will suddenly make a lot of sense, but 1) many other things will not and 2) this doesn't mean life //is// survival of the fittest. For contrast, you can look at life through the lens of class struggle. The fight of the burgeoisie to suppress us, the worker proletariats. Or through the lens of empathy. Or through the lens of races, black versus white. Many things will make sense when you look at life from that perfective, but many things will not, and it //definitely// doesn't mean that any of this //is// the meaning of life.
 The point is, looking at life through the lense of, say, survival of the fittest, has no prescriptive power. It has //descriptive// power, as I said it's a very useful perspective from which to look at life. It has some predictive power as well, for sure, it's certainly a useful model for analyzation and making predictions about the future; however, it is missing //prescriptive// power - none of any of this is proof enough to go from "in our observation, survival of the fittest served as a useful model for describing animal and even some human behavior" to "survival of the fittest is the absolute meaning of life".