Misobiosis: The Cruelty of Mother Nature
English version: “The popular tendency to attribute some kind of benevolent wisdom to an anthropomorphized Mother Nature serves, in practice, only to legitimize all manner of indescribable cruelties.” — David Pearce Life may be described as a contingent biochemical arrangement that, having acquired at some remote point in cosmological history the capacity for self-replication, came to perpetuate itself indefinitely in the form of increasingly complex organisms. These organisms carry inscribed within their very constitution the necessity of continuously struggling against processes that tend toward their dissolution. There is no evidence whatsoever that this process was guided by any purpose antecedent to itself; at no level of reality accessible to scientific investigation do we observe a goal capable of justifying the immense quantity of suffering produced throughout natural history. What we find instead is merely the continuation of a causal chain initiated without intent...