@Asta I'm sorry I can only see your race as cruel no matter how I look at them, despite your examples not one of those species (that aren't maddened) would kill and eat their own young, entire prides would starve and have and they still didn't eat their young. Tigers are incredibly maternal creatures and would and have died so that things don't eat their young. Humans are just a fucking mess so I'll give you that. Nomadic and tribal peoples in this or any other world know how to treat their land so they can always get enough sustenance to survive, even desert dwellers know how to tap a cactus or catch a lizard and I think you'll find only cannibals (which is a very small population when looked at globally) would ever consider eating people meat and children's flesh is still taboo to them (from what I've learned). Your characters therefore aren't like humans tigers or lions but more like viruses or perhaps maggots. They sound as if they can't self sustain and when out of what they perceive to be options will turn on themselves/others. Life can be sustained anywhere if a person only looks but to not look or to decide that what the earth has given you isn't enough and so consume children/flesh instead that is cruel...or lazy. At least in my opinion.

I don't know if that makes any sense, still a bit out of it on painkillers but since we're going to be roleplaying together I thought I'd put my two cents in.

Edit: Of course it might be my subconscious perspective kicking in, I AM a mother you see and only reluctantly eat meat and even then I feel guilty for every single bite and feel vilely ill after each meat based meal (again though I was a vegetarian for a long time so that might contribute). Unless your race sees itself separate from other races and thus your lion/tiger things more apt, their the predator and other bi-pedal creatures the prey? I dunno but I am trying to get it.

Edit2: I can get that they don't see themselves as cruel by the by, I just can't see how any other races in this setting and a majority of spirits/deities will not view the actions of eating people meat as cruel, not evil, just cruel.