Originally Posted by djchameleon

Animals on the food chain do exactly that though. If they always only evolved for survivability then predators up the animal chain would slowly die off from not being able to consume enough food to survive.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.