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Life is cruel
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Life is
fascinating to many people, but al forms of life are the product of
those that have managed to survive a long and endless struggle. Life
and nature are not the heavenly bliss that many see it for. On the
contrary for every life there is much more death, every plant and
animal compete for space. When a large tree falls in a forest a peace
of land becomes available and like a power vacuum any other plant that
finds its way there will try to fill that void. First grass will grow
on the forest floor and a lot of small trees will emerge each one
racing to the top in order to desperately reach for the sunlight. The
shade of the young trees will son bring death to the young grasses on
the forest floor, and out of the many trees that have grown there only
one, the strangest and tallest will survive. It will take the space of
the other young trees and as its crown spreads above the others
eventually no sunlight will be able to reach them, some of these trees
will survive as stunted dwarfs but most will eventually die. Not only
do organisms compete for space they also feed on each other. Because of
the perfect conditions for life on earth, animals and plants have
evolved to huge wonderful and complex lifeforms. All this life exists
in a brutal and merciless equilibrium. Every organism is decimating
another by consuming and devouring it. If herbivores become to
plentiful to many plants will be consumed and the lack of plants will
then starve the herbivores. If there are to many carnivores they will
run out of prey and then they will starve. There is a cycle in nature a
cycle of one devouring the other. From the very beginning of evolution.
There is only one thing that matters to life and that is its ability to
survive and replicate. By what means this is achieved matters not. If
it can survive and replicate it will life. This perhaps explains why
life even for the survivors can be a cruel experience. Life simply
requires the species to survive evolution does not care weather the
experience is pleasant or not it only requires you to survive. One can
survive with a tremendous amount of suffering and survival is al that
is required in order for life to carry on and evolve. A fear of death
is in every animals blueprint. In fact that very fear of death was
favoured by natural selection because those afraid of death where less
likely to get themselves killed. Think of people that have a natural
lack of fear they are more likely to get in dangerous situations such
as unnecessary risk taking like extreme sports, fighting or not giving
potentially fatal situations the respect they deserve. These people are
more likely to get killed before they ever procreate. This removes
their fearless genes out from future generations. People who are scared
of Tigers are less likely to get eaten by one because it is their fear
that guards them from exposing themselves to such dangers. This very
fear that allows most animals to survive is also the curse to much of
life's suffering a fear of death and danger is the reason why a
creature will do everything to stay alive no matter how much suffering
and pain their continued existence may bring them. Even if such a
creature manages to hold on to life by the skin of its teeth, it will
procreate and this is how a species can survive regardless of how much
of a struggle its existence may be.
Harmony in nature is
not a peaceful coexistence between different organisms harmony simply
means that the quantity of life, death and devouring between each
organism is in equilibrium. This existing order of life does not allow
for any new life to evolve from scratch unless a primordial soup is
isolated from any already existing lifeforms, otherwise the existing
life would prevent new development from happening because it is higher
up in the food chain. Natural selection allows simple life to evolve in
to large and complex life as it has on earth. Natural selection or
survival of the fittest allows for superior mutants to survive.
Mutations happen entirely by chance but natural selection of superior
mutants happens systematically. Natural selection is a selector which
allows the superior to live and and the inferior and incapable are left
to die. Very view mutants happen to be superior by chance and it is
this continuous selection of superior mutants that allows increasingly
complex to form and adapt. Life for humans in nature is cruel and
nature would kill many of us but our species would survive. It is
technology that could potentially make our life's more pleasant. This
sadly is not the case because organised modern human society is cruel
to each other. Humans use each other as slaves in order to build their
own little capitalistic empires. And they show no remorse for any
suffering they inflict on other members of their own species or any
other species for that matter. In conclusion nature is cruel by chance
and Humans are cruel by egoistic desires. It looks as thou suffering
may not come to an end even with our potential technological ability to
do so. This makes me glad to know that one day life will end. if the
big rip ever comes the struggle will be over on every planet al the way
to the edge of infinity.
This grim and brutally honest article was written for your education.
Kaiser
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