Can anyone think of a more sadistic concept than the food chain?

Question

nice one god!

Answer 1

There is nothing truly "sadistic" about the food chain. For something or someone to be truly sadistic would mean to kill for the sake of killing. There is no real purpose involved. Feeding on another living organism for one's own survival is not considered "sadistic." It may not seem nice, but it is necessary if one wants to continue on living. Recent studies suggest plants may have feelings as well, so in light of this, vegans would be just as "murderous" as the rest of us omnivores.

Answer 2

Yes. The alternative.
For one - If the living creatures on a planet ate only the nonliving matter, how long before it would all be gone?
Two- We know so little about the requirements for Life. Wishing that Life could continue through the ages without any type of cycle by which the organisms support each other seems a little bit like a child crying because he/she is cold standing barefoot in the snow, but refusing to put socks & boots on or go back in the house. The child doesn't like either of the solutions, but can't solve the problem themselves.
Third - If there were no food chain, then all living things would either live forever or their deaths would serve no purpose (no good to balance the loss). In case living forever sounds like a better plan, have you read Tuck Everlasting? Who knows? maybe the "life after" does not include a food chain, or even food. But in order to have physical organisms that require a continuous supply of energy and/or certain physical substances, there must be a continuous source for the energy and necessary substances.

Also, according to the DSM-IIIR, sadistic includes the concepts (which I don't see in the food chain) of:
violence used to dominate or control, lying specifically to cause suffering, torture, humiliation, and restricting the freedoms of others. Being eaten is not particularly humiliating; I think you have to be alive to feel humiliated. And killing in the food chain is not done to control anything; seems to me that dead things cannot be controlled because they don't DO anything but sit there and maybe decay. And God does not control us (although sometimes *people* try to by using God's name).
The food chain (or "the law of the jungle") does not encourage violence for pleasure, only for actual needs. All nonhuman life tends to avoid conflict and violence unless necessary for survival. Predators tend to go after the weak, not to support the theory of natural selection, but because they are less likely to end up injured themselves.
We humans have distorted that by finding ways to kill more easily and letting "someone else" do the killing while most of us only eat the well-disguised products. When did *people* decide that violence was okay (or even fun) when not necessary for survival? IMO- That is sadistic.

Answer 3

The food chain is not sadistic at all - it is as natural as birth-life-death. In order for something to be sadism you need someone who enjoys the pain they cause people or animals and unless you suggest that god is into serious s/m....???


sa·dism (sdzm, sdz-)
n.
1. The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others.
2. The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty.

Answer 4

yes, living with my exwife..
for more sadistic concept, take into account inexplicable violence done from one person to another. the food chain is just its own natural evolution. beings need energy to exist, we can't (just an inability) absorb light (as plants do) so we must consume (like fire, we destroy our host as we consume it) things found on earth. other plants, animals (hell, even each other) and i imagine we will find ways to 'eat' other things as we further evolve.

Answer 5

No one can outdo Nature or God. There can be no other more sadistic idea.

Kill or be killed lacks the subtlety. Do or die is slightly better than that.

Answer 6

You can look at it from that angle, but then if there is immortality behind it all, then what appears to be frightening is simply a stairway to heaven.

Answer 7

Yes, definitely.

Answer 8

Kill or be killed

Edit:

"Kill or be killed lacks the subtlety. Do or die is slightly better than that. "

True, but I love giving out vague responses sometimes, it leaves it up to how you wanna view it, as you did.

Answer 9

And the alternative is what then?

Answer 10

Well it's really more symbiotic then sadistic.