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People say nature is cruel, but it's kind, too (self.vegantheoryclub)

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Although it is undeniably true that “nature” does “kill” and “torture,” it is also cooperative, compassionate, and just. An increasing amount of research is beginning to show just how many the social interactions among various species are affiliative rather than divisive or violent. Nature may be brutal, but it is also far more complex than a dog-eat-dog world. Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce write that the “consumption paradigm . . . has monopolized discussions of the evolution of social behavior. The predominance of this paradigm in ethology and evolutionary biology is both misleading and wrong, and momentum is building toward a paradigm shift in which ‘nature red in tooth and claw’ sits in balance with wild justice.”

-- Sunaura Taylor (from her book Beasts of Burden)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good quote. People who say that act as if we shouldn't know better than wild animals when it comes to morality. Absolute garbage argument that yet is the one i hear the most when people realize i'm vegan.