"A single-celled organism's selfishness does not cause much destruction. At most, they eat all the food in one area and leave other single-celled organisms with nothing to eat. A rabbit's selfishness does not cause much destruction either. At most, it eats all the grass in one patch of land. These creatures simply have too little destructive power."
"But humans are different. As human intelligence and power grow, so does their destructive power. At first, they merely practiced slash-and-burn farming. Later, they began destroying Earth and plundering energy. With technological advancement, human productivity has become increasingly terrifying, and their selfishness has turned into destruction inflicted upon the entire world."
"Altruism in human society is ultimately another form of selfishness. Maintaining certain social relationships is actually done for one's own convenience. Advocating great love and righteousness, maintaining public order and good customs, is actually meant to preserve a good social environment and reduce harm directed at the 'self.'"
"Parents devote themselves to their children in order to Carry on the Family Line and preserve the influence of their own genes. Children devote themselves to their parents to satisfy their own Filial Piety, display their character to outsiders, and gain better social evaluations. Devotion to a lover is, in essence, also for obtaining sexual resources. All forms of kindness, great and small, either satisfy one's sense of self-worth or are acts performed under the pressure of social morality to display one's character. At their core, they are still selfish."
"When these selfish individuals gather together, they become terrifyingly destructive toward everything in the Outside World. Faced with the dangers of the Abyss, humans can destroy the world and destroy Earth without hesitation, all for the sake of a possible path to survival."
"At the end of the day, humans do not want to