35 IMMEDIATE AND CYCLICAL REALITY AMONG ANIMALS
An example of how the present reality can conflict with the cyclical concept is predation, because from a cyclical point of view, that is, a point of view that defends justice above all as a consequence of the cyclical nature of the universe, nature could having chosen because predatory animals did not exist, however, if we take into account the immediate reality that could also be called the immediate interest of the present, to many animals predation may seem an acceptable solution, especially to those that being scavengers can consider that it is not worth waiting for an animal to die of natural causes if they can accelerate that process. The question would then be, is predation an act of selfishness motivated by the immediate and personal interest of animals, or is it rather nature that has decided that predation exists as a means of keeping nature clean? Perhaps nature has designed predation as a cleaning system to prevent the territory from being filled with corpses, it is true that scavengers already exist for that, but when predators hunt live animals they can prevent dead animals from being abandoned with the risk that that means causing infections, in that case it would be as if nature ate itself as a means of cleaning, it is like a snake biting its tail. Fortunately in this, human beings are different from animals, because they can use technology to solve all their biological and environmental problems.
Predation also serves as euthanasia, selecting older and weak animals over young and strong ones. It must be borne in mind that if predators did not exist, nature would be full of sick animals or with genetic deformations and while they lived they could transmit these diseases to other congeners or transmit their genetic defects to future generations. This could be the reason why it is quite common for males to fight to get females during the breeding season, in this way it is guaranteed that only the strongest and healthiest specimens can reproduce, thus guaranteeing that the sick or carriers of genetic defects are unable to have offspring. This may seem cruel, but it guarantees a healthier and happier life for future generations.
In reality, the human species has already almost reached genetic perfection if we refer to those specimens that are more racially advanced and free of genetic diseases, for that reason, at present, the greatest brake so that all citizens of the world can benefit from this progress they are the carriers of hereditary diseases, so it would be ideal to create a world program for the eradication of all genetic diseases from all over the Earth. It is clear that the ideal would be to eradicate all diseases, but the difference is that hereditary diseases are well known but not always act as it should against them.
If we consider that nature created predation in order to hunt older animals, then the death of the young should be considered an unfortunate accident, because once nature designs an animal to hunt the logical thing is to think that it is not going to differentiate between an old animal and a young one, because for him there is only a difference between the strongest and the weakest. In any case, if it is a question of looking for a utility, the hunting of the young could also serve as in the previous examples so that the healthiest or most intelligent of each species or age survive, because they would be the ones that could best escape from their pursuers.
Predators never look for the strongest and healthiest animals when they go hunting, because they do not want to be injured while they do so, in this way, when hunting the older or sick, they do a cleaning job for the environment. Human beings, on the other hand, have technology that allows them to eliminate corpses quickly and without any type of conflict, this shows that the main factor that causes conflicts between animals does not have to exist in the human species. It is also easy to create methods to eradicate inherited diseases peacefully using technology, but in the case of animals the difficult thing is to know if predators hunt as a consequence of their own interest, or if it is nature that has motivated them to do it so that they serve as a means of cleaning, because perhaps the action of the scavengers would have been enough to achieve that objective.
The truth is that animals cannot understand complex concepts such as the cyclical nature of the universe or total justice, they are moved mainly by two forces, one is immediate or personal interest and the other is the influence that nature can exert on them, but as the will of animals can also partly influence their own destiny, it is very difficult to know to what extent the circumstances of their life are the consequence of their own will or if nature is capable of imposing a cyclical and long-term concept on them . The reasonable thing is to think that there must be a balance between what depends on your will and what depends on nature, the difficult thing is to determine what part of your behavior is wrong and depends on your will and what part is correct as a consequence of the The influence that nature exerts on them, because just as human beings make mistakes, animals are no exception.
If predation is considered to be a necessary and favored attitude by nature, then the philosophical dilemma would be why does nature choose a remedy that can produce suffering to solve the problem of cleaning corpses from the environment instead of choose scavenger animals? The answer may lie in what we could call natural accident, that is, it would be the consequence of nature's inability to control all the circumstances that surround it without accidents or errors occurring. One of the examples may be predation and hunting animals, because nature would consider it better to accept some suffering for prey in exchange for having the benefit of a perfectly clean natural environment. In this case, it would be considered that the suffering is accidental, because the animals cannot know perfectly when they are going to die or where, for that reason, predation would be necessary, this would be true, but assuming that using exclusively scavengers was not so efficient. In this case, the accident rate is due to the fact that nature is forced beyond what would be desirable to use a system that causes suffering, as the animals are not able to solve the problem in another way. Humans, on the other hand, can solve the problem of cleaning the environment without the need for any conflict, because using technology they can take care of the problem directly.
Another example of natural accidents would be the innumerable accidents that occur in life without being able to avoid them. Or when a person dominated by selfishness turns evil, this is also partly an accident, because his behavior is the consequence of a mistake in not being able to understand that the balanced attitude is the best in almost all situations in life.
Many life situations would be controlled by the vertical, blue and straight dimension, which represents that which is rigid and constant and is the one that is most related to universal laws, and then there would be the horizontal, red and circular dimension that represents everything that which is subject to chance, will, exception or accident. This means that in the blue dimension there are no accidents or errors as a consequence of its rigidity, and they only exist in the red dimension characterized by variability and inconstancy. Accidents cannot be completely eradicated, because they are the consequence of nature's need to continually regenerate itself, because with the regeneration of the universe comes oblivion and with the forgetfulness of the past comes error and accident. With each new day time is renewed, the same happens with each month, each year, or each cosmic cycle, the same with each human life or each spirit each time it reincarnates. A characteristic of renewal is forgetfulness, because forgetting is necessary when a cycle ends in order to complete the renewal.
It is useful to remember while the period for which that memory is used lasts, but it is also useful to forget when that period ends, because there are memories that only serve during a human life but there are others that serve during the entire cosmic cycle, as a consequence of forgetting arises Ignorance and as a consequence of ignorance the possibility of making mistakes and suffering for it is created. However, this is not something that has to happen indefinitely, because when civilizations finish their evolution they get in tune with the great universal truths and manage to close the circle of errors. Once society reaches this situation, it can use its high level of technology to ensure that the vast majority of accidents that now occur cease to exist. In the future, situations that cause conflicts between animals can also be avoided, because through the use of technology, humanity will be able to close the circle of vital needs. Once technological progress is completed, it will only remain to complete moral progress, so that the world can enter an era of global peace.