[Gordon Pym]

predators are stalking, chasing, capturing, killing, and devouring their prey. Agonized suffering and violent death are ubiquitous and continuous. This hidden carnage provided one ground for the philosophical pessimism of Schopenhauer, who contended that “one simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.”

Just another thread about the IRS

[captain_dave]

Dr. Jeff McMahan’s argument makes an excellent example for getting rid of tenure in education. Right and Wrong, Good and Evil apply to people. The other animals are doing what God intended them to do; act to balance each other. If, for example, bears were removed from the forests, the rotting corpses of deer would pile up. Scavengers are Nature’s clean-up crew. Predators like wolves and lions act to cull the herbivores. Herbivores are nature’s lawn mowers.