A Necessary War

There is one struggle that all of everything that has ever lived faced. It is a struggle that we all continue to face. For the reader who is reading this book right now, let me tell you: we are at war. Nature, is at war. Conflicts continue to be waged on a micro-biological scale, and in larger forms than we have ever seen. And each war has countless little wars within it. Essentially, the Earth is a giant ball of toil and death that we call our home.

Life is made up completely of making alliances, betrayals, and acts of offense to achieve what we can to live. Utilitarianism dictates that life forms will act according to what brings them comfort or happiness, and that is true. To do that, somebody needs to loose. The Law of Conservation of Matter states that there must always be a balanced equation. So, naturally, there cannot be progress without a loss of some sort.

Now before I continue, I must adress who is winning this war. That is not an easy question to answer. It would appear that nobody wins, as if the object of life is simply to stay alive (as dictated by instinct), than no one could win because it is impossible to stay alive forever, presumably. So perhaps one can infer who is currently in the lead in this massive conflict we call life in some other way.

In terms of which species on this planet, including plants, animals, fungi, and the other three kingdoms of life, has the most of their kind, any given form of bacteria or insect would win, seeing as they can grow in numbers unmatchable by anything else. In terms of the percentage of a particular species across the cosmos, this is still the case. There are more organisms in the room in which you are currently sitting alone than there are humans on the entire planet. In terms of advanced species, however, human kind, the homosapien, is easily in the lead.

So how did this great conflict start? What prompted it? Why do we fight it? And most importantly, will any of the millions of species that we have identified through history be able to actually win. This last question I can answer right now: no, because the war of nature against nature is quite possibly the most beneficial conflict in history. All wars reek of death and loss, but that does not mean that the costs of any given war outweighs the benefits.

And, because we are so very, very small in this world that is constantly unfolding and exploding before us, just remember, of all the known species, we by far live the most comfortably. Lastly, anyone who states that humans are apart from nature because they can only destroy, just remember that destroying and building power and self-interest are literally the essence of nature and utilitarianism. Humans are merely the first to exploit this practice to large lengths.