"To live is to give life meaning, yet one must take others' lives to survive... in that way, life is death, itself..."

Do you think...
Where it might have went wrong... was when they all stopped looking what they consumed in the eye?

I'd be different. If I hadn't had to watch the lot of it all, living.
My Master would even say... his goal was for Terra's people to never have to even consider that cycle.