Rangor summed it up fairly well, and I suspect he'd know, that nature is
nature, and who are we to question it? But, just for my two cents,
cruelty, as you so put it, can be for ones own amusement. In fact, I
tend to feel that you basically summed up cruelty quite well in that
post, inflicting pain on someone for ones own amusement/pleasure/twisted
view of what strength means/etc.

But, that isn't what is motivating the eagle, and again, such is said in
your own post. You said that it was killing its sibling to get a greater
share of food. Bingo! That isn't cruelty.

Cruelty would be the eagle attacking its sibling, and trying to prolong
its siblings life, simply so that it feels pain for a longer amount of
time, which, I might add, runs contrary to what it was attempting
(namely, to remove the other bird as quickly as possible, thus getting
more food as soon as possible). You could argue that it's greed, and
thus reflective of Indrani, which I might grant you (well...again,
nature is nature, the motivations behind a bird, and the laws that are
inherent in nature we can only guess at by behaviours, at any rate, it
isn't a point I'd care to argue about), but it certainly isn't cruelty.


Penned by my hand on the 16th of Scarlatan, in the year 354 AF.