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View submission: There Is Nothing Natural
Everything is natural
Comment by CamoMaster74 at 16/02/2025 at 00:15 UTC
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Would you say that there is nothing unnatural? That is my perspective
Comment by IamIronBatman at 16/02/2025 at 13:37 UTC
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Not necessarily. Honestly depends on your understanding of what "natural" is. To say that because humans are natural then by extension all things any humans do are also natural would be debatable. Is murder natural? Is everything that exist natural simply because everything is made of particles and particles are natural? I have to disagree. In my opinion, for something to be truly natural it must not only exist in a natural state, but also must occur in a natural way. Nothing that exist and occurs naturally is reliant upon intention or necessity to exist, so anything that would otherwise never have occurred in nature cannot be said to be natural by riding the coat tails of things that are natural. My feet are natural, my shoes are not natural. Ideas are natural, inventions are not. I think people often mistake unnatural for unusual... but things that are unnatural aren't that way because there's no natural aspect to it, but because it couldn't exist without being made as such through intent by accident. But nature doesn't intend and it doesn't occur accidentally. Iron is a natural ore, but anything we make out of iron isn't natural simply because the iron it's made of is natural, because if someone didn't fashion the iron into a tool, that tool would never have existed.