Stanislaw LEM. The Voice Of The Lord (№ 303017)

The instinct of destruction can be inferred from thermodynamics. Life is a deception, an attempt to commit embezzlement, to circumvent the law, in fact, inevitable and inexorable; being isolated from the rest of the world, it immediately enters the path of decay, moving on an inclined plane to the normal state of matter, to sustainable balance, which means death. To exist, life must feed on order, but because a high-order anywhere except in living matter does not exist, life is doomed to samopozhiranie: you have to destroy to live, and to eat the order, which was good for food insofar as amenable to destruction. Not ethics, and physics dictates this law.