Do you think there is such thing as an objective good and evil in nature?

[Swansven]

Nature is somewhat of a game at the end of the day, the goal being survive and reproduce. In this game, you do everything in your power to reach this goal. An herbivore, being a participant in this game, will eat a plant (another participant) in order to sustain its own life. Is this ill natured? Of course not, because that's simply what the deer is programmed to do so that it can survive and reproduce. It's the same thing with a wolf eating a deer. But what if a parent were to act against the interests of nature and intentionally kill their offspring? Is this objectively evil? Why or why not? Is it evil simply because it goes against nature? Or do you believe there is no such thing?

And then there is the topic of 'good'. Is reproduction objectively good because it follows the principles of nature? In reproducing, you are creating a resource-intensive being that will take away resources from other beings. In creating and sustaining life, you are also taking life. Is there anything to be said about whether this is good or bad? I believe it's all subjective, dependent on the observer. Thoughts?

[A Former User]

The way I understand good and evil is that they don’t really exist within nature itself. Nature is a neutral, objective system, it simply is. Events happen without moral intent. Life emerging at all is extraordinary, almost impossible (basically 1 in infinity) when you consider the scale of the universe, yet that alone doesn’t make nature “good.”

Moral judgements only arise from perspective. To a cow, humans are undeniably evil because we consume them. From our point of view, this is survival, not malice. Likewise, if robots were to harvest human organs for purposes beyond our understanding, they would appear evil to us, even if, from their own framework, they were merely acting according to their design or necessity.

In that sense, good and evil aren’t objective qualities of actions in nature; they are labels assigned by conscious observers based on how those actions affect them.

[love]

There are two categories: Creator and creation, both categories hold their own objective truths. The objective truth of the creation (nature) is all that is taught by Gatis Lagzdins. The objective truth of the Creator (Jesus) is all which is taught by the Bible. Do not confuse the man-made religion called Christianity with the person who is Jesus.