In Reply to: Nature as murderer posted by Michael M. Rosenblatt on November 13, 1996 at 15:01:25:
> To recapitulate, vegetarianism is probably the
> most sensible choice an adult could make. But
> animal rights activists must also realize that
> nature is horribly cruel by definition. Nothing
> you do will ever change that.You appear to have missed the point. Nature is
not "cruel". For something to be cruel it must
be aware of what it is doing, realise that there
are alternatives, understand that it needn┤t
continue and yet do so. Animals do not do this,
humans do!! Animals kill and eat to survive,
there are very few examples of animals simply
killing for fun or greed. We humans however kill
for fun and greed all the time.To suggest that
nature is inherently cruel and therefore there is
nothing we can do about it, is not only naive but
perhaps suggests a belief in some sort of
ordered structure to the world. Strange for an
atheist.
None.