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Just a while ago, I watched an existential struggle between a cockroach and a gecko. The cockroach relentlessly struggles for its life while the gecko struggles fervently to quench its hunger instinct. These allied yet different struggles reflect what life is about in its primordial form: the struggle for existence, for meaning, for survival and for sustenance. One can say the gecko is wicked for sniffing life out of the cockroach but that is only a viewpoint. On the other hand, the cockroach can be seen as a source of sustenance for the gecko.
But life and death! Such concepts that seem afar yet so near! For life to continue for the gecko, the cockroach had to die! Such a tragedy of life. Yet this is the true nature of life; a competition in which only the strongest shall survive. As I watched the cockroach struggle for its life, my mind fell back to humanity and our struggle for survival in a world where everything other than us can be likened to a "gecko". We are always under watch for potential predators even when we, ourselves, are also predators. This vicious circle goes on until our death and even then, our body becomes a sustenance for microbes and other living things that dwell underground.
With such thoughts, I ask myself: what is good? what is evil? what is greed? what is fear? what is lust? what is pleasure? since what one may do for his own survival maybe detrimental to that of another yet without doing so, our survival cannot continue... With these thoughts, I've come to a certain realisation: that life is ultimately a battle-field and we fight in other to see the next day and in every war, there must be casualties yet our drive to exist becomes the justification for our deeds! How Ironic!!!
QUESTION:
Due to the need for survival and existence, do you think man should be justified regardless of the way they get their survival and existence(even at the detriment of others)???
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