/lit/ - Literature

>>18006506
Reductionist to the extreme.
Most ants and bees will never reproduce, they don't have the capability. Their life is meant to serve the swarm as a whole by providing utility and defense.
Yes it is in service of the queen who reproduces, but claiming that their life is about competing to reproduce is the same as saying your life is in service of making scientific advancement. While it does provide foundation to allow that to happen, youre making large assumptions and attributing a minor role as being absorbed by it.

You are not a prized pig being bred for its meat, nobody could care less about you or your spawn. You are not competing for reproduction, you're merely competing for a base level of happiness you're too flawed to ever achieve. Even a worker ant has discovered its purpose in life and is content with doing.