May 20 100-word response: Arjuna on life and death

“I see no creature in this world that supports life without injuring another. Animals live upon animals, the stronger upon the weaker. The cat devours the mouse, the dog devours the cat, the dog is eaten by the leopard, and all things again are devoured by Death. Even ascetics can never support their lives without killing creatures. In water, on earth and vegetables there are many lives which are minute and invisible, but they are killed when the ascetic takes his nourishment"—so says Arjuna trying (along with Bhima, Nakula and Sahadeva, Draupadi, Vyasa, and, finally Krishna) to get Yudhishthira to accept the kingdom they've just won instead of retiring to the forest “to live on fruits and roots...; renouncing speech; renouncing all judgement of good and bad.”

So, first, what is Arjuna's argument here, what conclusion does he want Yudhishthira to draw from this rather grim (if factual) description of life? And secondly, regardless of what *Arjuna* wants us to think, what reaction to his argument is suggested to you by the *Mahabharata* as a whole?