Strength and its Effect on the World

In class this week we started talking about Friedrich Nietzsche.  In one of his essay's, he writes about the bird of prey feasting on the lamb.  The lamb, or another creature, might consider the bird of prey evil for hunting the lamb.  However, the bird of prey really has no choice.  The bird is strong, the lamb is weak, the bird needs to eat, and the lamb can not defend itself.  To ask the bird of prey to not eat the lamb would be asking it to present its strength as weakness.  To ask the lamb to hunt the bird of prey instead of being eaten by it would be asking the lamb to present its weakness as strength.

People seldom ask others to present their weakness as strength, because most of the time it is not possible to do so. However, people often expect others to present their strength as weakness.  Is it fair to ask people to represent their strength as weakness? It might make things easier, more civil, or less annoying, but it is not necessarily fair.  Strength isn't a bad thing, but sometimes we make it a bad thing, and expect people to stoop down to a lower level.  Expecting people to stoop down to a lower level ultimately could be bad for society and the human race.  Natural selection was intended to weed out those less suited for success and reproduction in the environment.  Now, the weak who would have once died off are being kept around through medicine or special classes.  One reason for this might be because there is money to be made in these fields, but all this is doing is slowing down the success of our species and overpopulating the world.

If humans didn't have souls or emotions we could fix this problem easily. But the fact that we feel the need to save everyone we can and that we don't want to see any of our friends or family die off makes fixing the human species nearly impossible.  Maybe one day natural selection will return, but I doubt it.