The inherent nature of life as we know it exists on the basis of competition. At the very pure core of who we are as organisms existing on Earth we are guided by the rules that an individual cannot benefit without removing that same opportunity from another individual. To put it in a cliche, there is no "free lunch". I comment from a position of a healthy, well educated, financially stable white man who has basically passed the more primordial competition of competing for the more basic things to survive. I don't have to engage in physical competition for shelter, food, or water and for the most part I basically in a sense have "beaten the system". Yet society hasn't always existed like that, I think that the guiding principles upon which culture is built around still have elements of the struggle to survive still embedded within them. How did human culture come up with such things as honor, chivalry, kindness, and charity when the examples around us in nature clearly show no such things? Why do social institutions such as the church, government, education system attempt to regulate our inherent nature when for much of history our ancestors were engaged in a struggle for survival? Should I, as a privileged and very lucky member of society be doing everything within my power to attempt to help as many people as possible (essentially ignoring the rules of nature) or attempt to take as much as much from the system as I can? What is stopping me from doing anything I want (within a limit created by a higher power such as a government), where is my sense of conscience coming from? What is the point of my existence? Why was I raised in a model that contradicts the struggle of survival? Is any of this making any fucking sense? (probably not lol)