Is There a Dicotome Between Productivity and Destructiveness?

"I don't think it's unreasonable to posit that, since you're alive, adopting the highest possible regard for the fact that you're alive," he says. "You can kind of see in your own life when you're on a productive path that sort of ennobles and enlightens you, or a destructive path." He adds: "There's no reason to assume that it wouldn't be ue [that] being is very ambilent"....