Life is a biochemical process ...

The way I look at it ... Part II

See ... life is a biochemical process that dynamically replicates itself by interactively integrating with its environment.

If it didn't dynamically replicate itself by interactively integrating with its environment, it wouldn't "evolve".

The proof that it does (replicate itself by interactively integrating with its environment) is that it has (evolved).

One can say, the "purpose" of life, therefore, is to evolve. That is what it does.

This, then, is the basis of ethical value ... the pursuit of the evolution of life ... which is NOT now best served by conflict, but by cooperative collaboration ... not by guardians on the boundary (though necessary) but by the community they protect ... though we need our guardians—our warriors—to preserve and protect the community.