College student Jerry says disease, natural disasters, and even war serve a greater purpose. His friends say his views are offensive, and Jerry replies, "But I'm a Malthusian!" Along with Thomas Malthus, Jerry believes that the benefit of problems that wipe out large number of humans is that:. a. the decreased pressure on the food supply reduces starvation and misery. b. people are forced to accept the hard parts of life. c. the fittest humans survive and evolve. d. the morally superior people survive.

C). The fittest humans survive and evolve.

Explanation:

As per the given description, Jerry believes imply that 'the fittest humans survive and evolve'. Her belief which asserts that the 'benefit of problems that wipe out large number of humans' reflect the application of Malthus's population and Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest' as the diseases, war, or natural disasters lead to serve a wider purpose as it takes away a large number of people with them that brings evolution survival of only the fittest ones by removal of lesser fits who were unable to survive. Therefore, option C is the correct answer.

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