The True Green Alliance

So, there are no ethics in nature. That is why a hyena can rather “unethically” disembowel an antelope alive or a cat somewhat “unethically” torture a quite uncomfortable little mouse to death – but they are not doing anything “wrong” – they are simply the products of nature, and nature doesn’t “do” ethics. Why don’t ARsouls ever ask the disembowelled antelope or disassembled mouse about their “rights”? It’s obvious – they have none. ARsouls only mention charismatic animals that raise donations.

Ethics are the indoor rules of the human den that we call civilisation. Human civilisation is the den that we use to protect us humans “indoors” from the nasty, lethal competition of nature “outdoors”.

Unlike uncivilised nature “outside”, we have rules – indoor, civilised human ethics – that’s why we frown upon you if you decide to play hide-the-sausage with close blood relatives, or you harvest another human to eat them for lunch. In nature, on the other hand, animals bonk their closest relatives and kill each other all day long in rather creative ways because they are uncivilised, “outdoors”, non-humans and have no ethics or rules.

We measure against our civilised, indoor human ethics to figure out human right from human wrong. But ethics don’t apply in nature – there are no ethics in nature, and subsequently there is no “right” or “wrong”, no “good” or “bad”, either. In nature, things kill other things with breathtaking savagery, but that is simply nature. Nature couldn’t care less – if you survive in nature, you get to try again, that’s all.

John Nash

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