I see nature as being responsible for everything, including man and what is in mans nature.
Is nature Evil?
2007-07-10 00:22:07 · 22 answers · asked by FairyBlessed 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
IMO does it mean 'I mean only'?
2007-07-10 06:30:15 · update #1
Its awesome and powerful. It is no respecter of persons so you should not take it personal. It has no selfish ego as man does, therefore is neither good or evil, it just is.
2007-07-10 00:26:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutly not... I always kind of thought that there is always reason behind the cruelty of nature. I think it is all about balance really. Take the population, we generally all live alot longer now because of modern medicine etc and so the population is growing. Natures responce is to manage the population with drought and disease. If we cure TB, Typhoid and Colera then nature introduces cancer and aids. If we were to solve that then something else will come along. If the population was to decrease drastically to what nature had intended then I think these problems would just decrease.
Like wise with climate and natural disasters. Take thunder and lightening for example. If you get a progressive period of hot humid weather, thunder and lightening kind of breaks that cycle.
In all instances there is a balance and nature only strives to manage that. Evil doe's not come into it. Besides, evil only really exists in humans I think, certainly in this world anyway.
2007-07-10 00:44:19 · answer #2 · answered by Oscar100 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course nature is not evil, nature has no conception of good and evil.
Chaotic events in nature is a reaction to environmental damage due to humans meddling in the natural course of the Earth.
Mans nature is what man wants his nature to be, Man has a conception of what evil is, even most of the time it is corrupted by Religious dogma and blame passing, when people should take responsibility for there own actions instead of blaming and hiding behind myths.
2007-07-10 00:38:28 · answer #3 · answered by V.O.T.A 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For something to be evil it has to have intent. A stone that hits your windshield thrown up from a truck's rear tire is not evil -- the intent is lacking.
A boy that maliciously throws a stone at your car's windshield and shatters it is committing an evil act because of the intent.
Thus nature is not evil -- but it sure can seem cruel.
2007-07-10 01:15:34 · answer #4 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe in Good or Evil. The same circumstances benefit one group while harming another. Good and Evil are concepts conceived by humans to (a) make sense of a world that is not in their control and (b) takes accountability away from our decisions when they are subscribed to external forces.
I see inhumane acts every day and throughout history - and inHUMANe is the thought I keep in mind. We can't control "nature" the way we can't control an asteroid bearing down on us; we can only control who we decide to help and how.
2007-07-10 01:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by Buttercup 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nature isn't cruel it has its own way of sorting the planet out. the earth is a living thing in its own right and as such needs to keep a balance other wise it can not survive. We as humans are the worst for upsetting this balance so we are responsible as we have free will, to stop the damage we are doing.
2007-07-10 00:32:16 · answer #6 · answered by lady_di_ar125 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is good or evil is a matter of human perspective. IMO, Nature just does what it does because it was made to things that way, it has no choice, so it itself is neither good nor evil.
2007-07-10 01:16:03 · answer #7 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, nature is not evil.... it does not have the intent!
Even at it's most wild, it is beautiful.
If humans are daft enough to build on flood plains, earths moving plates/ faults, in a known hurricane zone, etc, then it is their ignorance which causes the problem. Nature is just doing her thing!
2007-07-10 01:04:24 · answer #8 · answered by :~Debbz~: 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
For evil to exist, there has to be intent and there is no intent in nature either to hurt or to heal. If one leaves God, and hence absolute morality, out of the equation, then evil is defined in relative terms by each individual as whatever deliberately sets out to hurt me or those I care about (in the broadest possible sense).
2007-07-10 00:57:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't see nature as a responsible entity, but as a series of forces which are themselves without sentience, and thus not evil or good...
Of course, I'm Wiccan, so I don't have this whole "when a tornado strikes it's evil" POV.
2007-07-10 00:39:51 · answer #10 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋