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[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

The fittest survive. Not the strongest.

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[domina-mira.livejournal.com]

It'd be difficult to argue the case of the latter.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

And yet, enough fools will try.

[domina-mira.livejournal.com]

There's always someone willing to embarrass themselves.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

And usually, they are either in my classroom or with my name.

[paradoxlost.livejournal.com]

I put to you that the smartest could survive virtually anything.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

By which measure of intelligence?

[paradoxlost.livejournal.com]

A tricky thing to measure, but I'm not just talking about good old IQ here, it requires a certain creativity, especially in holding onto life, or returning from the dead.

Unless the latter happens to be a trait of ones species, however finite.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

Intellect, creativity, guile. Aye. Adaptability.

...there are whole species that this is a talent of? *oh, his curiosity is piqued*

[hornrimmed.livejournal.com]

Very true. It takes the best combination of skills.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

A detail which escapes too many.

[hornrimmed.livejournal.com]

Though it is subject to interpretation. If you take "strongest" to mean "one with the most strengths" it amounts to about the same.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

Aye. But the ones I speak of, they usually do not. Or they have a very narrow idea of 'strengths.' Who can beat who in a fight to the death...

[alloy-avenger.livejournal.com]

Comes down to how you define either, really.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

It comes down to how you define anything.

[alloy-avenger.livejournal.com]

Strength? Could be internal fortitude, could simply be the clean and press. Fitness? Could be aptness for the job, or merely the ability to run distances.

I always favored the word strength.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

And which definition of the word do you prescribe to?

[manwhores-r-us.livejournal.com]

Probably so, man.


All about the will to live and what you'll do to keep sucking air.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

And furthering your line, of course. But that is an entirely different debate.

[manwhores-r-us.livejournal.com]

*locked*

Well, there goes my idea. Can't reproduce. I think we're basically found under rocks or some shit like that.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

[locked]

Then you can survive as an individual, for whatever that counts for.

'We'?

[redemptionmyass.livejournal.com]

I suppose that depends on your definition of fittest. I tend to think people who learn to adapt are a hell of a lot better off than just about anybody.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Adaptability is an important trait, no doubt. But they need also to be able -- physically, mentally, emotionally -- to carry out that willingness to adapt, aye?

[ifwebefriends.livejournal.com]

I've always found it to be the luckiest.

[thesevenlights.livejournal.com]

On an individual level, many times that is also true. But luck averages out, when you change your focus to groups.

[ifwebefriends.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I've always been more of an individualist myself. I don't like conforming.