Good Shepherd Paradox, The
The paradox of the shepherd that cares for his sheep, even at the risk of his own life, only to surrender them for slaughter in the end.
This paradox is one of the keys to an understanding of natural systems. All natural ecologies contain paired properties which seem to be inconsistent but are in fact enabling characteristics: making and unmaking, my lunch and your undoing, your lunch and my undoing, extravagance and efficiency, life and death.
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