“Fine. Put succinctly, your position is fundamentally flawed and dangerously simplistic. First, every producer is also a consumer, or did you dine on air and sunlight this morning? Second, without the forces of death and decay, any system would eventually become a hell due to the demands of an infinitely expanding population and a finite set of resources. Third, any philosophy that takes as its core tenet an ‘us versus them’ proposition of any sort is doomed to become a totalitarian nightmare.