Natural selection often creates a relationship between predator and prey that looks red in tooth and claw -- bears and salmon, wolves and elk, etc.. No one will

Natural selection often creates a relationship between predator and prey that looks red in tooth and claw -- bears and salmon, wolves and elk, etc.. No one will argue that the wolf represents an advantage to any individual elk, but to the elk genotype, the argument can be made that the wolf confers an advantage. It's the same with governments and people -- history proves that relationship red in tooth and claw as well. The surviving elk outrun the wolves, and the surviving people stay one step ahead of predatory governments. When Stalin signed the non-aggression pact with Hitler, he began a purge of his military. Anyone who had spoken against Hitler beforehand was purged -- shot or sent to Siberia. Then, when Hitler broke the pact and invaded Russia, all those officers who had spoken in Hitler's favor were purged. The survivors were those few who didn't have an opinion, or who didn't dare express it. The Cultural Revolution in China purged all those bourgeois elitists who had a college degree or who had acquired skills like science and technology, or any significant academic achievement. Now everything has changed and individual Chinese are allowed -- nay, encouraged -- to educate themselves for success, acquire wealth, and grow the economy -- exactly the opposite of the Cultural Revolution outlook. It is a very wise person who avoided any problems during the Cultural Revolution, and who avoid any problems now. My point? Elk who survive do so by avoiding wolves. People who survive do so by avoiding governments. It's true that wolves improve the genetic stock of elk, just as governments improve the genetic stock of people, and by the same method -- by tearing the weak and sick to pieces.