Consider the peacock. A massive, vibrant tail is a liability. It slows escape from tigers and requires enormous energy to grow. By a logical standard, it is "unfit." Yet, peahens are obsessed with it. The male with the loudest, most cumbersome tail gets the most mates. Therefore, the "tail gene" is supremely fit, regardless of the tiger.
To understand the natural world, one must strip away the comforting narratives of human morality, purpose, and progress. There is no "good" or "evil" in the wild; there is only the arithmetic of existence. This is the core of Pure Darwinism—a view of life not as a tapestry of meaning, but as a relentless, mechanical algorithm for solving the problem of survival. pure darwin
This is a catastrophic category error. Pure Darwin describes the is of nature; it does not prescribe the ought of civilization. A cheetah eating a gazelle is not "evil." A human choosing to help a starving stranger is not "unnatural." Consider the peacock
At the heart of this view lies the mechanism Charles Darwin identified: Natural Selection. It is a blind watchmaker, a process without foresight, yet capable of producing the illusion of design. By a logical standard, it is "unfit