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"But should creatures live, while they live, by destroying others? Is this not vicious or cruel? We have granted that creatures should not live forever. How then are they to die? The only causes must be other creatures, either within, as parts, or without as members of the external environment. And what harm does it do a deer that it dies through the attack of a lion, rather than of old age? Old age is a dull mode of existence; if death generally came that way, then instead of the species being composed mostly of creatures enjoying the prime of life, it would be more largely composed of half-bored elders. The sum of intense enjoyment would be less, not more" (81 f.).

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