What If?

In chapter eight, I read that there are honeyguides who, like cuckoos, lay their eggs in the nests of other species. The baby honeyguide is equipped with a sharp, hooked beak. As soon as he hatches out, while he is still blind, naked, and otherwise helpless, he scythes and slashes his foster brothers and sisters to death: dead brothers do not compete for food!

That is what I call selfishness!

That is also what separates humans to other species. Or it might just be that under the influences of culture and society, we don't do this but we would...

Anyhow, that is the most selfish act I've ever heard of. Supposedly, animals are expected to be equally fond to their offspring than to their brothers and sisters. If this is true, then this little honeyguide will grow up to kill his offspring. He'd think something like "All the food is for me and I don't care who it is, I wont allow nobody to get it".

Can you imagine this kind of thing in humans? For as much as I've criticized the way we live. This is wrong in any aspect. And humans wouldn't do it...

Why would they kill thier own brother when they don't even know if there will be enough for both of them. And also, why don't the brothers and sisters kill this little baby? To prevent him from getting their food?

Doing this would be like killing someone because he might sometime attempt with my life. He might not. But he might as well might and we don't want to take the risks, do we?

Living by what ifs is a mistake. If there is something that I've learned in my life is that there is no point on stressing out for the what ifs. Things happened that way and you were partly responsible about it. (I say partly because we have to take chaos into account). There is no turning back. So you either do something to make it better, or do something to make it better. Those are the only options...

Life is what it is. Not what it might be. Poor animals, who lack the capacity to rationalize. Maybe the brother might have come useful in the future. Who knows? Life is too short to make such stupid decisions. Think. Then act.