the funny thing about the alternative is that, no one ever has to learn how to starve, but starvation is one of the best teachers.

when i was a child, my father found me feeding squirrels in the back yard. he told me, "if you feed the squirrels, they'll have more babies, then, if we move away, no one will feed them and they will starve. it will be because you fed them that their babies starved."