' Life is cruel, and unnecessary , by our own definition of same '

Hi hfordney, I found your response to be excellent and I thank you for it. Here is my response.What is life?. Life is all living things, plants, animals, birds etc. I believe that all life has a single source and that it's evolvement away from that source has resulted in 'difference' without deviation from the modus or type. All life competes, all life uses sensory influence to create a space for itself within the soup that is life. In the more advanced forms of life, pain is used as a focus to our competitive crusade. When a crocodile bites into a zebra, it feels pain, just as you would do. Life insists that things die and are replaced with the genetic improvement of that type. That is why in the real world the largest bull seal controls the beach. There is a clarity to this process as the herring are doing the same thing and to fall behind is not an option. Man is a primate and within primate culture, male dominance is a much more complicated set of 'politics' within a group. Anyway that scenario has long since passed and we now have a delinquent with 40 grandchildren while the professor has 2.Do you get the point that I am making here.Life is a simply defined phenomena with 'universal' norms. It is a carrot and stick process with very small carrots and very long sticks. Bull seals fight to exhaustion and death on the beaches while lesser specimens watch on in frustration. Pups are trampled in the mallee. This is what life is, it is ivy choking a tree, it is a fungal disease killing an elm tree from the inside. Look at our own history of these things, cholera, TB, small pox...................................Ebola. Did you see the effects on the human of these things. Can you hear history coughing? I can.The human has an ability of 'sorts' to observe and appraise all these happenings within the reference of our own definitions of other things that we describe as cruel and unnecessary. We are confident that the ISIS crucifixion of a 12 yr old boy and the slicing off of his fingertips is cruel and unnecessary.http://www.mirror.co.uk...We can make the same human appraisal of life,(as described by me)and declare it to be cruel and unnecessary.You have already admitted the first part when you say. ' You just think there are way more instances of negative things than positive (I won't deny there are negative things) and that the sum is slanted way toward the bad side.'After all, we don't say about the crucifixion scene that the perpetrators are excused because of their religious convictions, do we?How much misery layered upon misery must there be before we just call it 'cruel.My last point here is an 'ultimatum' to you. You say that this cruelty does not need a point. Yes it does if it is not to be classified as 'unnecessary. Could we do without ISIS, yes we could. Could the Cosmos do without our absurdity, Yes, it could. We are a factory designed for pain, misery, frustration and ultimate failure. The world was better when man was still up his tree. Yes, it was cruel and brutal and pointless but it was also pristine and balanced and a terrible beauty in the Cosmos. Our evolved consciousness has irreparably changed this balance and we have filled the world with a new psychosis of cruelty that is all of our own making. There was no Hell before we made it, there was no wilful torture, and there was no constant anxiousness best illustrated by the ticking of our clocks. IMHO