Isn't that what it is all about?? Five thousand years of negotiating linguistic compromises to make the most efficient use of killing eating and fucking to survive and endure, and where has all that effort gotten the human species. We are still killing eating and fucking one another. It is all about the kill in the end. No matter how sophisticated and enlightened a utopian community becomes, they seem to always and invariably accept that some killing is justified. Once anyone does that, believes that he/she/they have the moral and ethical authorization to kill in the name of something, all else is reduced to might makes right. It just so happens that today the smallest among us can, with an appropriate tool (small handgun), kill the largest and biggest of us. That may be the only difference in 5000 years of "civilization" actually.
I give two ends of this spectrum. The best who ever killed-ate-fucked were the Mongol hordes, streaming across Asia and Europe slaughtering, eating, raping, pillaging, extracting, and utilizing every possible resource imagineable. No one stopped them, no one could, no amount of negotiations or massed armies could hold against their onslaught. They stopped because they had other business to take care of; interesting that. The only community who seems to have attained a certain grace through which they have chosen not to authorize the killing of other human beings (though they have one of the very best justifying excuses ever in the history of man), are the Tibetan Buddhists. It took them realizing it doesn't matter at all once they excuse themselves from the illusion of the game. Life is not about killing eating and fucking--it is about being, just being. If you eat food that is not killed, you change how you think about killing at its core. If you eat that which has been given you, you do not feel that you are free to take from others. If you accept that your own life is merely a chance vessel for a tiny portion of a larger and more eternal journey of the spirit then you don't need to fuck to prove that the illusion of the body isn't more than that. mmmmm