[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[ian glendinning]

Platt one (constructive) thought inserted ...

You wondered
> from the berry's point of view if it doesn't consider what the bear is
> doing to it as immoral. If I was a berry I would think so.
>
Well only if you objectify the individual berry, as a SOMist might do.

If you chose to look at the berries and their genes (selfish ones, the
kind you approve of) I'd be thinking "Ooh goodie, a bear, now I can
get coated in bear shit and shat in the woods - our manured future is
secure. My sole purpose in life, as the fruiting body of a highly
evolved flowering plant is to be eaten by a bear."

All a matter of perspective. We have to be careful when we
anthropomorphize the "feelings" of the participants in quality
interactions.
Ian