Morality is a human construct. Nature has no morality, only survival matters - by any means. That's why such cruelty (from human moral viewpoint) is found in Nature.
>Nature has no morality
But perhaps it does? Animals kill other animals only to survive (to kill them in order to eat them or to defend themselves from being killed/eaten)
Humans may be the only species who hurt other humans just for the fun of it - now _that_ is cruelty.
Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia
by antisemiotic on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:55AM
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Humans and cats, actually.
And others too:
She means that human consciousness is born from our actions towards nature since before we were conscious and that we cannot detach morality from that. Furthermore, we can't hope to define sex and gender, before understanding the roots of morality since they are defined by our primeval nature, not by society rules born out of conscious thought.