Is Nature Nice?

We are inundated by videos of cats doing cute things or animals acting funnily. These are rare instances of nature. Most of the time, nature is showing its fangs. Take, for example, a deer running. When a deer runs, 100% of the time, it thinks it’s running so that it does not die. Take another example of squirrels. When they are foraging for nuts, they are doing this because if they don’t eat, they will die. There does not seem to be a time when a squirrel “doesn’t feel like foraging because it is tired or being lazy.” Nature is brutal; the fight for survival is real. We, humans, have a healthy buffer against this cruel thing, but we are still a very integrated part.