Look at it from another angle.

Individuals who generally believe that life will continue in some form after death, whether they believe in heaven and hell, or believe in reincarnation, most of them will now abide more by certain norms, such as morality, for the sake of future benefits and disadvantages.

However, life individuals who do not have relevant beliefs are more concerned about the present, and most of them are realists, aiming to maximize the interests of this life.

To sum it simply, the former is light on this life and the next life, while the latter is only heavy on this life.

One day, an individual will begin to care about what happens after death, which is what we call "the things of the afterlife." The reason why all major religions are emphasizing the afterlife in various ways is to remind people that life does not disappear completely at death, but will continue in different forms.

However, even so, many people are still skeptical because they have never verified these religious teachings, and many are misled.

Actually, we can understand the things of the afterlife through our lives in this world. It's like the laws of nature govern the world in the afterlife, just like on Earth. Nor do the makers of these laws need to show their heads in this and future lives.

For example, if we want to drive without accidents, we must obey the traffic rules, because inertia and friction are natural laws, and we can either obey them and drive safely, or we can break them and cause death. Or, if we were standing on a balcony on a twenty-story building, we couldn't just jump off or we'd fall to pieces in front of the law of gravity. These laws were made at the very beginning of the universe and do not need to be made or modified for someone on an ad hoc basis. In the same way, God in the religious sense has also established the eternal law for the world to come, that is, "good will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded!" In view of this, if we want to achieve peace, happiness, and eternal life after death, there is no better way than to live, work, and act according to this law from now on, otherwise, we will end up regretting it like those who are lucky enough to not only drive drunk in violation of the law, but also drag racing at will.

This is the positive guiding role of religion's view of the afterlife in this life, advocating "promoting good and avoiding evil". In this sense, religion is not to make laws for the Creator, let alone to change the established laws, but to remind the world that people must "do things according to the rules" in order to "die without regrets".

The ant's belief does not have any concept of life form after death, and theoretically he will be a complete realist in this life.

If the entire ant colony is taken as an object, then this view holds true most of the time. The ant colony is like a living organism, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, competing and plundering by unscrupulous means in order to maximize its own interests, ignoring all win-win concepts, and completely participating in a zero-sum game.

But if it is put on the individual ant, then this is not true, and the individual ant can easily die for the benefit of the entire nest, without complaint or fear.

There is a view that an individual ant is just a neuron and a cell, and an ant colony is a complete independent organism, so there will be a huge contrast in biological behavior.

But in the eyes of the protagonist, in terms of his personal experience, it is obviously biased to not regard individual ants as independent beings.

It is true that individual ants, especially soldier ants and worker ants, lack some of the qualities expected of an independent soul on some levels, such as the ability to think and act independently. But these traits are not present in the queen and male, and these queens and males have even had a differentiated personality.

If individuals such as male ants and queens are regarded as independent living beings and believe in realism, why can they sacrifice for the collective without any fear?

The only answer the protagonist can think of is collectivism.

Collectivism is an ideological theory and a spirit that advocates that individuals should be subordinate to society and that individual interests should be subordinated to the interests of the group, the nation, and the state.

It is worth mentioning that collectivism in the modern context, usually referring to the collectivism of the proletariat, is a concept opposed to the "individualism" of another group. Collectivism is one of the basic principles of communist morality, which runs through the core of all norms of communist morality.

Collectivism is a philosophical, political, religious, economic, or social perspective that emphasizes the interdependence of each individual. is a fundamental cultural element, the culmination of the anti-individualism inherent in human nature, and in some cases emphasizes the importance of organizational goals for the prioritization and cohesion of individual goals.

The difference between individualism and collectivism is values. Values are people's general evaluation and general perception of the meaning and importance of objective things around them (including people, things, and things), and are the criteria used by members of society to evaluate behaviors and things and choose their desired goals from various possible goals. These general evaluations and general views are, in the final analysis, a reflection of people's attitude towards interests. That is, values are interests that people are aware of.

People's actual interests are diverse, people's conscious interests are also diverse, and therefore people's values are also diverse. Among the many interests, there are two fundamental interests, namely personal interests and public interests; At the same time, there are two basic forms of values, namely, individualistic values and collectivist values.

Therefore, from the perspective of the essential determinant role of interests in values, there are only two values that play a dominant role in other values in the human value system: one is individualism and the other is collectivism.

Collectivism, therefore, is not a very new affair, but as an element that runs through history in many different and different types of government and in political, economic and educational philosophies. All human societies contain elements of individualism and collectivism.

Collectivism can be divided into horizontal collectivism and vertical collectivism. Horizontal collectivism emphasizes collective decision-making among relatively equal individuals and is therefore often based on decentralization. Vertical collectivism is based on the hierarchical structure of power and the consistency of moral culture, and therefore on the concentration of power.

It was precisely under the inspiration of the spirit of collectivism that countless examples of courageous sacrifice emerged in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union and New China in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Ants are also obviously other models of extremely collectivist creatures, they also have no concept of the afterlife, do not believe in heaven and hell after death, but in the pursuit of this life at the same time extremely focused on collective interests.