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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Our only "real" purpose is to survive, reproduce, and our-compete others for scarce resources. Ideals are fine, but we shouldn't let them obscure this underlying reality. CMV.

We were taught to play nice as kids, with the golden rule and whatnot. As an adult, if your eyes are open at all to what's going on, you're likely to be disturbed by just how shitty people are to each other. Why all the killing, raping, exploiting, destroying the environment? On a less extreme level, in your workplace you see people trying to get ahead by any means necessary, even if it means pushing others under the bus. People are always trying to one up each other to gain social status, and reap the rewards that come with it (including better selection of mates etc). 

We let ourselves be disturbed by this: why can't everyone just play nice? But we humans are just animals after all, we are a product of evolution. While we have some freedom to try to act more highly evolved, we should acknowledge our roots, as ape like creatures, and before that, rodents, fish, and ultimately microorganisms. We aren't special. Life for all of these organism s is a daily struggle to survive and outdo your competition. Its the same for us, only in a less obvious way, because civilization tames and prevents our most outright aggression. 

If you acknowledge that life is fundamentally about survival and competition, you might find reality less disturbing. Also, you might take steps to make yourself more competitive, instead of complaining how life is so unfair. 

The danger of this, of course, is if we forget morality entirely and just all act like selfish brutes.
gpt
Purpose? We have an intrinsic purpose? News to me. Who assigned this purpose?

>we should acknowledge our roots, as ape like creatures

Yeah! Those stupid plants trying to photosynthesize. Don't they know that they come from one celled organisms, incapable of producing sustenance from the sun?