Yes Nature has its own rules, still the case is slightly different because though we don't regret human lives, roads are permanently obliterated by lava, and the whole economy of the island relies on the southwest tourism and farms. The two villages engulfed have and will not have chance of rebuilding, it's literally under the lava flow and that land will be just black rock for hundreds of years from now. At least evacuation was swift the people on the volcano way won't have a home place to return, not now not in a hundred years from now. We have also the scars from previous eruptions, it is what it is.