Is it the fear of Sodom and Gomorrah that provokes such accusations that animal instincts are evil?
Ok, using the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the human case it isn’t the alpha male mounting the gamma that was the evil behaviour, it was the tendency to obsess. To take instinct and blow it out of proportion. The human thinking mind elaborates literally everything and makes its own problems. Then makes more by calling the problems evil and insoluble and demonizing the source. Sending itself spinning off into reaches of insanity. Evil in general is a human notion. In nature when something has gone out of balance other life tends to marshal in its own interest to counter the virulent behaviour. There is plenty of evidence that is happening even now. Remember Machiavelli going on about the man and the beast and how through logic both man and beast have their realm. Machiavelli’s insights into human nature were true and still prove true. When the human mind gives no thought to its inner beast, that is when the beast runs amuck. When we say “those impulses or that feeling are sinful or b