Daughter says it’s just the way the world works - life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.
See if you can get her to consider that the big dog at a place like her High School may very well be the small dog elsewhere. There is always someone smarter and hotter. She’s a big fish in that specific small pond.
Remembering there’s no guarantee she’s always the big dog might help her start to develop some empathy for the small dog. The initial impulse may be self-preservation, but maybe personal growth will flow from there.
I mean, we can probably just find/replace asbestos for Covid - it will be the same people making the same crazy claim.