• shoo@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    One of us is misunderstanding for sure.

    Fitness is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.

    You’re conflating metaphysical goals with the literal biological goals of propogation. It has nothing to do with survival, plenty of animals sacrifice themselves after reproducing, either as a food source or lack of evolutionary pressure to stay alive. The human exceptionalism that our awareness puts us above these natural processes is part of the problem.