Science has shown that we are, just like other animals, subject to the surging forces that constitute the natural world. Connecting to the natural world isn’t always desirable. Can we reconcile our moral sensibilities with our immersion in the relentless processes of the natural world? Suffering, Nietzsche writes in Beyond Good and Evil, helps humanity grow and change:You want, if possible (and no ‘if possible’ is crazier), to abolish suffering. Moralities that characterise suffering as irrational and evil therefore deny our intimate belonging to the natural world.