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Survival of the fittest does not work in a social setting.  If you lived on
this planet by yourself, your freedom of choices, values and ethics would
be no problem.  As it is there are several billion people on this planet
that need to be considered.  Realistically, freedom is limited accordingly.
 If you sneeze, someone in China catches a cold.  If a pine tree is dying,
it will put out a large number of pine cones.  Nature abhors a vacuum. 
There is a natural conservation of matter.  In other words, everything
matters.  If people are civilized, they set aside some of their freedom to
live in a community with a set of values and ethics for the advantage of
cooperative effort.  People who place no value on human life are considered
sociopath and are a considerable threat to everyone including themselves. 
Without a reasonable set of values and ethics there is only chaos and
everyone suffers.  Survival of the fittest means that only one person
survives not several billion people.  Most religions are based on the
common good and how to live a constructive life.  Unfortunately, the beast
within us can rationalize all sorts of bad ideas and actions.      We need
to care about each others welfare in order to have a quality life in a
civilized environment.  Dave Eddy