Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the h…

Richard Dawkins
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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. ✨ Richard Dawkins (1995). River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life, Basic Books (AZ)
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