Block #1 The basic nature of all other life is also the basic nature of Man.
At the basic level, all life is concerned with two fundamental tasks. The first is to protect the equilibrium of the organism. The second is to continue living.
The second task is the ultimate extension of the first, but must be dealt with separately to distinguish the ultimate goal of sustaining life from the minute tasks of maintaining equilibrium.
At its root, life has no purpose but to continue living. Absent the mind of Man, there is no right or wrong, no good or bad. It would be a world of absolute freedom and of absolute anarchy.
The wolf doesn't regret eating the rabbit. The tree doesn't regret killing the grass that cannot grow in its shade. The only moral lesson to be learned is that, in such a world, only the strong (or lucky) survive.
To me, reason (or common sense) leads me to the conclusion that, absent Man, this is the nature of life.
Reason also leads me to accept that, because Man is a living creature, his basic nature is the same as all other living creatures.
But reason cannot tell me how, or why, it is so. One could believe either that (1) this was by design of a Creator, (2) this was a result of evolution, or (3) this was just a fluke of nature.
This is the first of three building blocks that can reached by reason but also can be accepted by those who rely on faith for their answers.
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