FFXIV is in a Prime Position to Make Some Drastic Changes

[BlatantPyre]

Competition in its purest form is survival of the fittest.

It is a sad fact resulting from the scarcity of ressources on our planet. It does rely on loss because the sole purpose of competition is to decide who eats and who has to go hungry. Who lives and who dies. Who gets the title and who doesn't. Who becomes rich and who becomes poor. Who wins and who loses.

If everyone can win, everyone can eat and everyone can live, there is no need for competition and nobody sane engages in such. I'm most certain you too do not compete over your food, health or anything that matters if you don't have to. Feel free to correct me if you actually are. I, for one, don't know a single person who would. Everyone I know would rather that everyone can go home sated and happy, if somehow possible.

Again, you are redefining competition to something it's not. Who has told you to think this way? You are taking something messed up and grafting it on something that has nothing to do with what's messed up. Competition isn't about victory over others, it's about challenging each other. It's about improvement, about learning, as a *people*. And sure, it can *come into play* in survival; but it isn't survival itself, it's an ingredient that comprises it, not the other way around. In your example of competing for food, such an instance exists only when there's a *shortage*...the competition isn't the problem, something else is. And in current reality, it's because people have either become lazy or corrupt that's the problem, not competition. And besides, even in such a setting, if *no one* worked to eat, ALL would die. If the problem of scarcity were solved, no one would have to compete to survive...but competition would remain, because it's necessary for life. Stop being fooled into focusing on red herrings and straw-men - look at the REAL problems.

This is going to be my last post on this, feel free to continue, but...this isn't the place for it.