Once life is seen as a vast interconnected system, certain ethical conclusions follow. Specifically, the futility of one part of the system attacking another part of the system is revealed.

David Sloan Wilson (1949 CE-), David Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of the author Sloan Wilson, and co-founder of the Evolution Institute, and co-founder of the recent spinoff nonprofit Prosocial World