If i see you get attacked by wild animals i guess i won’t try to help you, wouldn’t want to go against nature or anything
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Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months agoHumans are just as much part of nature as everything else
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
grubberfly@mander.xyz 3 months ago
It’s funny how this is downvoted. Not that I agree, but wouldn’t that be the logical conclusion?
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rest assured, i don’t agree with it either, but as you say this seems to follow from the statement
We shouldn’t treat/cure cancer, cancer happens in nature and we’re a part of nature
We shouldn’t try to prevent rape, rape happens in nature and we’re part of nature
We shouldn’t try to limit animal suffering, animal suffering happens in nature and we’re part of natureIt’s the good old argument from naturalism
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 months ago
a common definition of nature is the stuff that is untouched by humans.
as wiktionary puts it:
Kwiila@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Some indigenous people cooperate with their natural environment. Humans are fundamentally a keystone species that’s collectively gotten really bad at it, to get good at other things. We could have human conventions, art, and technology that works entirely with nature and our environment rather than against it. Between these facts, I’m not a fan of that definition.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Would that make invasive species unnatural? When does a disrupted ecosystem become natural again?