You get to take what the weaker people have as your own. So its not a net loss....unless you try to actually implement the RATIONALIZATION for the evil of the Hive, as if it were a principled point of view.
The Darkness that Oryx serves, however, I do believe has the simple goal of destroying life....and simply see the Hive as a necessary and useful tool to that end.
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Transferring resources is not a net gain... at the very best you keep things neutral, but because conflict is involved, that's basically impossible...
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In terms of the Grand Scheme/Big Picture....you're right. There ARE no winners in war...only losers. But that is a perspective that only avails itself to the very wise and-or spiritually mature. Most other beings are too caught up in the social drama...the scramble for resources, mates and status....to see that. So they fall for illusion that taking from others is a "plus" to their "column". But that gets us back to what the definition of "evil" or (its lesser cousin Sin/Spiritual Poisons) is. In the Jude-Christian tradition it can probably be best categorized as "Malicious self-interest" or "Malignant Narcissism". I think the Vedic/Buddhist tradition does a better job of defining it. Greed. Hatred....and the Illusion (ignorance) of "Seperateness" An "I" or "me" that is hard and enduring entitity sperate from the circumstances in which I exist.