1/ Darwinian competition is almost the exact opposite of competition as conventionally understood through sports metaphors.
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2/ An idealized sports competition is perfectly fair, like a coin toss, with handicaps added if necessary
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3/ An idealized Darwinian competition is being more perfectly adapted to a situation relative to the next best adapted organism
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4/ The goal of *conscious* Darwinian competition is to shape/select environment to your strengths to get comfy, be fruitful-and-multiply
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5/ The goal of sports competition is to find closest matched opponent whose relative ranking is illegibly close, and prevail.
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6/ The goal of Darwinian competition is to occupy uncontested territory.
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7/ Fundamentally sports competition is to strive maximally against an equal and win as proof that "God" has chosen your side as his people.
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8/ Winning without a fight or with a walkover is great for Darwinist, disappointing for Sportsist.
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Disagree, goal of Darwinian competition is to evolve a better competitive advantage including contested territories.
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only if necessary. When necessary, that gives Boydian approach to war and business which can seem "not in spirit of rules" in sports
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Darwinian definition of the self as that which the territory can be acceptably filled.



