Predators Empower Prey; Against Mercy

The predator drives the prey to greater strengths. Mercy, in the long run, is a fatal disease. Ragnarok is real and genuinely inevitable, but IRL you can be strong enough to survive, as long as you haven't forsaken discipline. Anyone granting prayers for mercy is trying to hire Ragnarok as your assassin. 

If, as the silly Norse claimed, even the gods die in Ragnarok, you merely have to be stronger than the gods, now don't you? Turns out the Norse idea of immortals is impoverished, and you can indeed overpower their anemic depictions. Either Aesir are far less immortal than depicted, or they're so glorious they don't die when killed...

Ragnarok has happened before; we're not already all dead. It will happen again. Forsake mercy, as it is trying to make you forsake yourself. 

Wiping out the predator is immoral. It trades away the long term in exchange for the short term. Weakness is a sin and the predator is its nemesis. 

Regardless, weak prey is not glorious. The contest between predator and prey is glorious. All hail Mars, patron of contest, not patron of contestants. If either wins without trying, the other isn't good enough. The only thing wrong about this is trying to separate the unworthy from their just demise. Get stronger or perish. Seek greater glory or forsake existence. 

If you must build a snake-free garden, then it is imperative to replace the natural predator with artifice. Either re-create the selection under controlled circumstances, or regularly venture out of the garden into the real world. Ideally, both. 

Mercy is inglorious. It lionizes the toothless reject. It is the philosophy of the sneaking parasite. Parasites don't make anyone strong; they merely make you sick. Of all unworthy, inglorious things, the parasite is the most unworthy, the most inglorious. It deserves the least mercy, which is exactly why it can't stop talking it up. 

Caveat: women, it seems, aren't there to be glorious. It is normal to mercifully exempt women from the contest. However, the two go together. If a woman insists on seeking glory, then the mercy must be revoked, else she becomes nothing but a parasite. Friends don't let friends allow ignominy to their wives.

And yes there are times when the black government tries to prevent both mercy and contest. Fear not; black government is weak. They can barely get in your way, let alone abjure the law of the heavens. On a seemingly unrelated note, the true moral of the garden of Eden is that even under ideal conditions where is no "evil" in the garden and no "evil" can get into the garden through the fences, evil will form spontaneously from within. Trying to abjure contest is itself a sin; even a (theoretical) omnipotent immortal can't create a circle with corners or a married bachelor, and likewise they cannot create a sinless garden.