Evolved Selfishness

Is it necessary to be “of use” to earn dignity?Do the Sun, Moon and the insects have to earn some utility in the eyes of the humans to deserve a dignified existence? 
Can a mother get obsolete once the children stand high enough to ignore her? What is the utility of those millions of species here on earth? To serve humans? What is the social utility of the cows left to die on the outskirts of the city? To be exported as human feed?What is the utility of the elderlies once they cross an age threshold? Is it to just take care of their grandchildren and the ancestral homes?
Is it necessary to be “of use” to earn dignity?
Isn’t being lively enough? Why have humans classified creatures in accordance with their perceived utilities? A flower’s utility is that it is a flower. The attributes assigned to it by the humans only make it recognizable and categorized. The objectification should end here. No creature owes any explanation to the humans for its existence.It is said that an innocuous event in one part of the world has the potential of bringing about rapid change in other distant remote corners. But how will the mighty connect and acknowledge such oneness? 
There is this silent ostracisation of the non-useful. Silent boycott. Isn’t this a mockery of all creation? Every creation has a purpose since it has been created. That is why it exists. Will the humans, who landed on earth on the last day of the earth’s calendar year decide who is to live or die, who gets respect or not, what is important in life or not, who gets to exploit the earth more and who suffers in deprivation?Obviously, as a society, this stupidity cannot be parted with easily. But as a unit, at an individual level unless there is fearlessness and acknowledgment of the might of what lies within, nothing will change.One is also aware of the limitations of effort. While Sri Rama did his best to establish an ideal state and was successful, it did not last forever. Sri Krishna taught us the importance of effort while highlighting the supremacy of the divine, the wheel of time. So should we accept the laws of the World and stop trying? But had we been programmed robots, what is the utility of such thoughts which want to resist the wrong, which see clear unfairness in the way things function in the material world? Something is missing here. The tussle between fate and effort will always be there. What is our role then? Maybe then, to utilize our minds the best we can and follow our Dharma, and that includes a pursuit towards a just and fair world where all creatures can lead a life of dignity and respect, irrespective of their worldly utility. What is there to achieve? That bliss which comes after an act of kindness and which connects oneself to the Supreme. That evolved selfishness.