Not everything needs to be related to survival, otherwise it's just "might makes right". I don't care how many stones a religious zealot will throw at me, it doesn't make him right just because he's overpowered me, and I would claim the same goes for "intelligence" (whatever it might turn out to be): I don't think the most intelligent creature is the one that's better at surviving. The creature that's better at surviving is just that: better at surviving. Some words are indeed bs, but there's no need to collapse the entire dictionary into this single 's' word.
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it is might makes right. look around you.
overpowering another individual or species is the epitome of life. the pinnacle of existence. Just because humans are romantic doesn't mean their petty moral justifications reflect in any way on nature's doings.
intelligence needs to have a definition. the broad universal definition is learn through habit or repetition in order to ensure owns survival. Every aims towards there. whether it is done through RNA or epigenetic processes (aka environment) is irrelevant because it all ends up to the same purpose from the same exact parameter.