"The Cultivators' claim to protect ordinary people is no different from the animal rights extremists' obsession of cats and dogs. It is not because they are kinder, more righteous, and more merciful than others, but because of their selfishness."
"Selfishness?" Li Yao stammered. "What selfishness?"
"In the Imperium of True Human Beings, there was a very famous sociologist and psychologist named Ma Tianluo, who proposed theory of the hierarchy of needs," Tang Qianhe explained. "He pointed out that the lifelong needs of a human being, from bottom to top, can be divided into five levels, namely the physiological needs, the safety needs, the love and belonging needs, the esteem needs, and the needs for self-actualization."
"The physiological needs and the safety needs are easy to understand. Warm, fed, comfortable, unharmed from enemies—they are desires that even animals will have.