ruining survival of the fittest

profitable and the cia good at druging us caugh caugh

how so ?

Why does "the fittest" have to only apply to physical strength and intellectual prowess? The fittest are adapting to their environment to survive as best they can; just like every other species on the planet. Also, population numbers rise and fall all the time, due to predators and overpopulation/lack of resources.

vs traditional medicine?

survival of the fittest isn't as simple as it seems

It's allowing would be fatal dieseases to remain in the gene pool by allowing individuals that would have died before the age of virulity to be given an opportunity to reproduce.

By doing so we're helping to artifically keep a potentially harmful gene set in the gene pool that would have (normally) been selected against.

However, the OP makes a poor case of it, seeing as the real grit of the argument has barely been touched on.

if the environment allows for viable offspring , then there will be survival
there is nothing artifical about it
and there is no reason to select against genes that survive to reproduce

I'm not sure you grabbed the idea I was putting out, so I'll rephrase it a little bit and see what you think of that.

We're changing the game with modern medicine.

By going against what the universe says about genetics that would have normally been selected against via Natural Selection, we are indeed artifically selecting for the genes.

Granted, we are not doing it for the gene itself. Instead we see an ethics based method of selection that we cling to in an effort to keep our family alive for an extended period of time.

These ethics cause harmful genes to remain in the gene pool if the afflicted individual survives long enough to reproduce, which in many instances, would have not been the case had we allowed it to be dictated by nature alone.

im not sure you grasp my very simple point
your " harmful genes " are only harmful in an environment that selects against it
we dont live in a world without medicine , therefore we dont live in an environment that selects against your " harmful genes "

and unless you foresee a future in which medicine has vanished , those genes will not be selected against , and will continue in the gene pool
natural selection working just fine , as we continue to adapt to our actual current environment , not one we lived in thousands of years ago