"Life may apparently be, or be evidenced by, any moral virtue which for the
moment [is] under consideration. In Shaw's play the two artificial hominoids
whom the rash scientific adolescents have made, use lies. We are told, "If
they were alive they would speak the truth,' [Shaw, Back to Methuselah]. A
moment later there is a question of destroying the hominoids. The male one
desperately pleads that only his mate should be destroyed. Their makers,
disgusted at this, say 'Let us see whether we cannot put a little more life
into them.' They do so, with the immediate result that the male hominoid
changes his entreaty to 'Spare her and kill me." Thus life is willingness to
die and an old paradox meets us in a new setting."
Only the creator is responsible for questions regarding existence, which is
the essence of being itself. As humans we have no power to extinquish or to
replicate existence, therefore questions pertaining to the existence are
really about 'quality' [Theatetus]
"Nature destroys nothing without replacing it with something better"
Meister Eckhardt
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