They take into consideration our relationship to all things, for example, all living things. They are the common goals which can unite all intelligent and well-meaning people of the world. People joined together in a common goal multiply their strength exponentially. For that reason, we must choose our goals correctly and carefully or harm will also be done exponentially. In fact, if we do not learn to adapt and survive if we continue to err, living expediently and nonadaptively for the moment, i.e. defeating our actual needs all else will become irrelevant, for we will no longer exist.
Adaptation is the fulfillment of human needs, including our own.
Nonadaptation is the defeat of same. William Ernest Hocking described the cause and effect of error in a poignant manner. Man fills his void of knowledge with assumed knowledge long before he sees how ignorance is to hurt him. Being intelligent beings, however, we can overcome our ignorance and rid ourselves of the error that continually defeats our needs.