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Amoral, moral, immoral

First definitions.

Being immoral refers to people's actions deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong. It's the direct opposite of being moral.

Being amoral, however, refers to situations beyond the confines of the human moral value system. In other words, being amoral is neither morally good nor is it morally bad.

The animal world is an amoral world. Animals in the natural world don't do according to what's right, but to instincts. In other words, they just do it. They don't observe the human laws of right and wrong. They instead follow the greater laws of the universe, the laws of Nature, the Tao. The tricky part, an extremely elusive quality in human societies, is that in the natural (amoral) world, no matter what you do, you're doing the right thing because nothing can go wrong. Rick was in that situation (he did not fully realize it).

Hence, morally, it would not have made a difference whatsoever had Rick not bothered at all with the fate and fortunes of the snake or the frog. It obviously matters to Rick and some of his fellow men, but it would have been infinitely inconsequential to the big scheme of things. The aforementioned snake would have in all likelihood gobbled the frog had our young photographer not intervened and if so, what? The snake would not explain why he had to do such a bad thing nor would the frog family rise in unison to condemn the atrocity in front of a United Nations of all creatures.