Darwin and responsibilty

The whole notion of survival of the fittest is being misinterpreted in our western culture. The actual competition in the evolutionary process has hardly any link to the survival chances of the individual. Individuals of the same species almost by rule don’t compete for food except when there is real shortage. The real competition lies on the side of procreation, having sex. This only ensures the survival of the genes. That’s what is wrong in our western cultural thinking, we think it’s the survival of the fittest individual, while in evolutionary reality it’s all for the next generation, and the next, etc.