Jack London's Law of Life: Old Koskoosh is left behind because he is blind, weak, and cannot hunt. If he were to be kept alive, he would be taking the tribe's resources and food, without making any contributions to the tribe. The tradition is that the old people of the tribe that cannot make any contributions to society will be left at the dead camp by a fire and slowly die. This suggests that the tribe values people who can hunt and is able to do things on their own for the good of society. They also feel that if you cannot help the tribe, then there is no reason that you should stay alive. It doesn't seem that there is much love and strong relationships in this society because of these murders. I do consider this a civilized society because it could be that if they do not make these sacrifices, then the weak could end up taking up too many resources and not leaving enough for the core of the scoiety. Also, there don't seem to be any protests by the citizens, therefore it is an accepted law. It would not be accpetable in today's scoiety because we value strong relationships and the we pay for people to get help and stay alive. It would be uncivilized if people tried to escape from there deaths and try to move on with the tribe. The Law of Life is that if one does not contribute to Nature's ultimate cause, then they will be killed of. On the other hand, if one does follow what Nature tells him to do, he will die anyway. Koskoosh recalls the image of the old bull moose because the moose relates to his society's tradition and more importanly of the situation he finds himself in. The moose has been left behind from it's own tribe and was left to get killed by wolves because it was no longer helping it's society. The same thing has happened to Koskoosh and he sees it as very ironic. I have learned that some societies value the greater good of themselves more than the individuals that exist in it.