In the end, our actions define us, not our beliefs.
Good vs. Evil is a battle that humanity has struggled to understand since long before the first Terran came through the EVE Gate. Thousands of years later, the struggle remains. Thousands of years from now, it will still remain.
A star goes supernova, and obliterates the inhabitants of an entire system. As you say, âinnocent of its own crueltyâ. The concept of natural selection in itâs most brutal, ruthless, and unleashed form.
Nature takes its course, and stops for nothing.
Even as âImmortalâ as the term loosely fits our existences as capsuleers, we are still nothing more than sharks in an endless sea of smaller -and- bigger fish.
Our struggle to survive, on a grand scheme level, is no different than a plant growing toward the sun, over the surrounding flora that also jockey for a chance at their own photosynthesis. Their own chance to thrive and procreate, overshadowed by a bigger fish. If the small plant is successful in itâs struggle, overtime it grows, evolves, becomes hardened through the process of natural selection that governs its own existence, or becomes threatened with extinction if unable to adapt and overcome.
the cosmos long ago defined the conditions in which that plant will exist hundreds of thousands of years before it ever sprouts. The orbit of the planet, the celestials around the planet and their gravitational interactions with the ebb and flow of water on the planet, the brightness of the star, everything that defines the environmental conditions in which the plant will sprout and be given itâs own chances to live.
It has two choices. Exist, or cease to exist. It is the PLANT, that determines how that is accomplished. The cosmos merely sets the stage.
Scale this to Capsuleers, or even humanity as a whole. The same details regarding -all- the environmental conditions laid before us by the universe.
We have two choices.
Exist.
Or cease to exist.
How we achieve either choice, is determined BY US. The choice, and the actions we take in the name of that choice, is ours alone.
In effect, we become our own God, in a sense that OUR DECISIONS, shape the world around us. Be it through combat, trade, or stellar transmutation.
WE shape our destiny.
WE alter the universe simply by existing within it.
If I dig up the soil beneath the growing plant, and rip it up from the root. Have I committed an evil act by ending that plantâs existence? Or is it okay because Iâm tilling the soil to plant crops to feed a village?