The goal of life, for all organisms, is to ensure stability for yourself, reproduce, and (for certain organisms, such as humans) also to ensure stability for your children.
I, unlike some reptiles on the right, am more than an "organism."
You do have roughly the cognitive abilities of the average mineral, but nevertheless you, and I, and trillions of things in both of our immediate surroundings are all organisms.
Do you not think it behovely to at least pretend to think of ourselves as worthy of a more compassionate and idealistic level of consideration than, for example, sea pens?