Survival of the Fittest

Survival of the Fittest. Also known as “natural selection,” Darwin’s simple statement that in dangerous circumstances, only those individuals most adapted to their environment survive—and the world, with its limited food supply, fearsome predators, and devastating diseases is always a dangerous place.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in 1932 that “survival of the (so-called) fittest” at the expense of the more vulnerable people in society comes from “letting things alone” — laissez-faire. He proposed an alternative philosophy – “social justice through social action,” which “results in the protection of humanity.”