Comment: on Entrepreneurs and Deaths

/commented on whether entrepreneurs are born or made/

Evolution proceeds via mass extinctions. Of course, it also proceeds via smaller steps - but someone always has to die, that's the definition of progress. You can be opposed to progress, and that's a legitimate sense of ethics, but that's not going to change the definition of progress. It's not a zero sum game, of course. From the individual's point of view, it's a negative sum game; from the point of view of civilisation, it's a positive sum game. Now, is this nonsense, poetry, or systematic patterning? You'll have to decide based on your choice of language...