 Natural evil refers to metaphysical and/or empirical evils whose origins are “natural”—i.e., grounded in the natures of things and/or the natural laws. The very nature of a horse makes it incapable of language: if that incapacity is a metaphysical evil (as it would be on Absence Theory), then given its origin it also counts as a natural rather than a moral evil. Likewise, cancer, pandemics, earthquakes, meteor strikes, aging and perhaps even death itself are (typically) regarded as natural rather than moral evils. In the tradition there are characterizations of natural evil that use one or more of the four templates discussed earlier: Absence, Privation, malfunctions in Matter, or some other Real Property.