For instance, few persons will question that a majestic lion presents a certain beauty. Yet his lair may emit offensive odors; the animal’s excrement is hardly ‘beautiful.’ When a lion strikes a zebra, this, too, we may not enjoy watching; but in this way the lion eats. Further, it serves to keep the number of zebras in check. If they were allowed to continue reproducing without any interference, they would die anyway, likely of starvation. Who would call that ‘beautiful’? Therefore, now, at this time, the lion’s killing the zebra is part of a necessary cycle.

Not even hungry lions run wildly through the herds “ruthlessly” killing, but take only what they immediately need.