A question about greed

[NoOneMan]

12. Everything wants resources and energy from something else

To everything, the death or destruction of other things to support its life is justified. This much is natural and observable.

What doesn't seem natural is killing & destroying beyond one's needs. Perhaps that is the "greed" part. Do we see lions killing and killing, leaving carcasses to rot? Do animals deprive other creatures of life, for reasons beyond security or energy? Yes, there are exceptions, but it seems the natural world has an "enough" point even if an immediate natural check is not present; of course, long term, culling species unnecessarily will lead to one's own species to be culled if they are a part of the food chain. Did animals evolve to develop this "enough" point after facing famines from reckless behavior? Did we?

I think the problem with humans is that we do not know what we "need" any more, if we ever did. We are so separated--by culture--from a finely tuned system that took billions of years to evolve, that we have no idea how much to take--it often seems like we are taking just the "right" amount personally if we are just getting by. We also don't understand that taking too much impacts the system that supports us as well due to our divorce from nature. We can rationalize our own greed, because our individual taking has little discernible impact; it is the aggregate, non-direct impact that does (which we can harbor hatred against).