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The runt of the litter and predatory genes
In nature when a mother has a litter, there may be one or two that will not grow up to be adults… because there is just not enough tits, food, energy is left for them.
That is life.
Nature doesn’t like to waste energy… Humans do.
Humans invented morality and the right to live, regardless whether it makes sense or not, so we have an upside down world, where we live in a should world. The selfish gene is not happy…
One of the things that make one the runt of the litter is not enough Life-Force… Life Force, at least partially, is expressed in the number of predatory genes, where you would push away another puppy from the food, so you can eat more.
The runt of the litter just makes weak attempts at getting what they need, and whine, complain, feel bad about themselves, daydream about a just world where everyone is as fair and nice as they are…
I was definitely the runt of the litter: I was born prematurely, with barely two pounds of body weight, and I was…