life is a competition and you inevitably trample over others to achieve what you want....

Hi, thank you for giving me this opportunity to debate with you. I shall start off with rebuttals.REBUTTALS“No doubt that competition may be healthy and promote a person to work harder but it does not mean that a person who loses or comes 2nd has been trampled over”Competition, passion, and desire is the background incentive to almost every major thing we do, this is agreed by my opponent in this statement, on the other hand, this statement is a red herring from his original stance indicated in the title of this Debate that “Life is (not) a competition”. From owning the most Dr. Seuss books in preschool to getting into a desirable college in High School to one’s career life and beyond, everybody is driven by competition. It is in human nature to compete with others to survive. This primitive whim to compete is observed and analyzed by Charles Darwin in his book, The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, then later developed into the popular maxim “the survival of the fittest” by Herbert Spencer [1] who evolved Darwin’s observations into ‘Social Darwinism’, the theory of Natural selection to apply to the modern, civilized society.“Another example can be of Bill gates. He left Harvard university but was he trampled?”Bill Gates is a perfect example of a successful genius. This level of success is very hard to acquire and have a very slim chance that requires a lot of trial and error. There are many others who tries to establish the same things as Bill Gates, creating software, and did not succeed (yet). As Microsoft expanded, Microsoft establishes copyrights to secure their programs to keep their products in their hands, this takes many opportunities away from many unknown programmers who might even started off their projects before Gates and Allen but didn’t finish it before Microsoft. Bill Gates is not being ‘trampled’ because he is on the top of the success pyramid (respecting the fact that Microsoft came close to owning Monopoly in computer software business) and along the process, ‘trampled’ over many programmers.ROUND 1Social Darwinism + Competition As mentioned in my first rebuttal, Social Darwinism [2] is taken and adapted from the idea of Natural Selection and moulded to agree with our modern society. In primitive times, humans must compete with others to ensure their survival and the survival of our species, this is classic Natural Selection. In our current society, however, fighting or lethal competition is not needed, but, like energy, competition for survival has now evolved into competition for financial success. Those who lack the incentive to compete with others does not win the game. Those who do makes a climb to the top of the pyramid-like hierarchy of wealth. The World Only Cares About What it Can Harvest From You Now, why does competition for success have to do with Social Darwinism? In High School, students compete with their friends over the best colleges, these colleges / universities often have very low acceptance rates. For example, Harvard University have an acceptance rate around 5-6%, in this case, millions of students around the world must compete with each other to be above the 95% of the students that will not be accepted and acts as a ladder for these elite students to trample over them into success. If you are really 16, then chances are you and I are both competing to get into a good college. Another academic example is how AP Exams are scored. Every year Collegeboard makes these complicated formulas to calculate how well over the others a student is. As a consequence, in an AP Exam, you can achieve a great / passing score just by getting a better score than the person next to you. In employment, employers will employ those who they feel would fund them with good work and maybe a positive attitude. Even if one have worked hard, they are not guaranteed a job if they are compassionate. In order to compete over a job position (especially in high-paying positions), you must state how you are better qualified than other candidates, this is probably the purest form of competition you will experience in your lifetime. Footnotes: (Please feel free to check out these sources)[1] http://www.aboutdarwin.com... [2] http://www.princeton.edu... (PDF)