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Law: Any dynamic system has limited access to resources, and a limited time in which to achieve its goals.

Observed Law: The goals of differing organisms, even of like variety, never completely coincide.

And so it follows that for any complex of organisms, competition must arise for limited resources.

From this: Some will succeed, some will fail, to acquire resources sufficient to live. Those who succeed, express themselves in later generations.

From this: New dynamic systems will arise to compete more efficiently.

From this: Competition and selection will give rise to organisms that are 'streamlined', incapable of surviving even in the midst of plenty because not equipped with complete methods of absorbing resources. These will prey on complete organisms to acquire their resources. And in return, the prey will acquire a reliance on the predators.

From this: Other forms of 'streamlining' will occur. Some of the resulting systems will depend entirely on others for reproduction and fulfillment of goals.

From this: Ecosystems will arise, interdependent, locked in predator-prey, disease-host relationships.

And so it follows that in the course of competition, some forms will be outmoded, and will pass away, and others will be preyed upon to extinction, without regard to their beauty, their adaptability to a wide range of possible conditions.

And so it follows: that no system will achieve perfect efficiency and self-sufficiency. Within all changing systems, accumulated error must be purged. For the good of the dynamic whole, systems must die. But efficient and beautiful systems will die as well.