"If you look carefully at the process of life you will find cruelty everywhere, because life feeds on life. This is a fact, but it does not make you feel guilty for living. You started a life of cruelty when you caused your mother immense pain in your birth. Until your last day you compete with others for food, clothing and shelter. You cling to the body, fighting for its needs, wanting it to be safe in a world of insecurity and death. From the "animalistic" point of view, killing is not the worst form of death: it is certainly preferable to disease and senile degeneration. The cruelty is in the motive, not in the fact."