Person A: People need to be controlled, they cannot be trusted! Person B: Why? Do you need to be controlled? Can you not be trusted? Person A: No! I can be trusted! Only other people need to be controlled! Only other people cannot be trusted!
Life is a cooperative venture not a competitive one. For were it truly competitive, we’d all be dead! For doesn't all life piggy back on the existence of innumerable other life forms without which they would be no existence for any of us?