Survival depends on you being able to compete in some manner because resources are finite, and for every life form that lives there are thousands, millions, maybe more that don't live because that life form had the resources. The idea that humans are somehow excluded from that is itself a religious tenant or rationalization, or perhaps more accurately, an illusion brought on by this moment of overwhelming wealth and power humans have amassed for themselves. For this brief moment in geological time, it is possible to successfully "compete" for resources by, for example, drawing this bizarre thing called a "disability claim", which hasn't exactly been around for very long, and has no guarantee that it will be around for any particular period of time into the future. But you can only do this because of the wealth generated by the incredibly successful competition that humanity has developed... and it scares me both that the boundary between this life and the more normal order of affairs is so thin, and that there are people, like you, who treat it as some sort of natural law, to the point of mocking people still in contact with reality. History shows when there's enough people like you, the prosperity goes away. Alas, history doesn't show us a way of preventing that from happening... here's hoping the march of technology gives us an exit this time.
It is a wonderful thing that humans cooperate enough that we can build enough wealth that some of us, even many of us, can forget this... but the fact that the human strategy is ultimately one of great cooperation doesn't change the fact that the human cooperation lives on a substrate of vicious, no-holds-barred competition, induced by the physics of how this universe works.
Realizing the world is built on competition is not what breeds viciousness... it is what lets us successfully build the secondary layer on top that shields us from it. Those philosophies that try to take a shortcut and declare that the world is not a competitive place have the paradoxical effect of exposing us all the more directly to the raw competition again, because it causes people to build structures that, in their denial of the nature of reality, therefore fail to insulate us against it.
The first step to solving a problem is ever and always clearly identify the problem, not refuse to see the problem.
