On: At the Bottom of the Ocean, a Gloomy Discovery

[aswanson]

Nature is cruel far more often than "nice".

[vincnetas → aswanson]

Don't anthropomorphize nature. It's just "is". It might look cruel to you like this, or it might look cruel to you the other way (octopuses leaving they'r eggs and only 1% surviving)

[fit2rule → aswanson]

If that were true, there wouldn't be any life, anywhere.

Cruel is the default state of the cold, cold universe. Life, not so much.

[creep → fit2rule]

Cruel isn't the default state of anything. Good and evil don't exist unless you're a human being and like to categorize everything almost arbitrarily.

[aswanson → fit2rule]

Study more nature.