[xkcd-sucks]

Also, "be" is not necessarily a state of passivity. It can be an active process of determining what your goals and life-quality factors, and of carving out space in the world for them. That your self can be an ideal, rather than a default.

Of course life is fundamentally about eating other life, except for bacteria that eat rocks. So there could be an adversarial element to it

[geomark]

Totally off topic, but plants and fungi don't eat other life. Plants make their own food using waste products from animals. Fungi use dead and decaying matter for food.

Even more off topic, the only reason I feel the need to comment is my kid is prepping for a Singapore Science test and they seem to have a lot of questions about this stuff.

[LoSboccacc]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

[geomark]

That's interesting. I think I saw that on the YouTube channel called Ants Canada. So some fungi do kill living things.

Added: That means some of the answers on the sample Singapore Science tests are not really correct.

[LoSboccacc]

ah also these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant

in general blanket statement about the nature are going to always find corner cases