Who decides what lives, what dies,
based on more than the needs of some,
but on what is best for the entire world
so balance can be maintained?
Who thinks they have the right to choose
that some should flourish while others fail,
that their kind is much more essential
and so deserves more space, more food?
The gods of course.
For only the gods act out of concern
for the whole; their own interests are not part
in any way of the actions made.
The point is this:
if you benefit in any way from a decision
to kill or not to kill today;
if you gain more ground, or food, or power
by taking others’ things away,
you’re not a god.
This is not your dominion.
You are not the most auspiciously born.
You are only a small part of the whole.
And if you act as if you’re a god,
without that knowledge,
you will only result in destroying everything.
You will fail.
And you will find excuses for your failure,
like “man is a fallen creature,
bound by sin to make mistakes”
because you don’t really think so —
you think man is a god,
and that the world just doesn’t work right.
Well, it just doesn’t work the way you think it does.
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