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Who is to say that callousness is more or less ethical?

• danharaj 10y ago
  Nature is inhuman, not in the sense that it is cruel but that it is devoid of human characteristics. Nature is neither tender nor callous, those are human traits. Nature is not unethical or ethical, ethics is for humans. It is interesting to ponder what the nature of other animals is; discover what possibilities we have in common with them. That doesn't change that humans are capable of self examination and choosing between cruelty and tenderness, empathy and callousness.
  • Pxtl 10y ago
    Callous as in "indifferent to suffering". That seems a fair description of nature.
    • danharaj 10y ago
      There is a difference between being unconcerned when it is possible to be concerned and being unconcerned because concern is not a characteristic of its being. Indifference/difference is to nature what north and south are to the Sun: logically ill-formed. There is no boundary between nature and other things, nature is all encompassing. There is nothing in nature that can be indifferent because nature can't be different from anything.