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What do natural and unnatural mean? Are human activities not part of nature, the same way the activitiy of other creatures like spiders and elephants are? Why o
by zogrodea 3y ago
What do natural and unnatural mean? Are human activities not part of nature, the same way the activitiy of other creatures like spiders and elephants are? Why or why not, and if a distinction between human and non-human activities is drawn, what justifies it?
- shiroiuma 3y agoI'm pretty sure that human activities ("artificial") are unnatural by definition. What justifies this is that we're humans, we have language, and we make words in those language to mean certain things (or make certain distinctions) that are important to us. So we can make the words mean whatever we want. We want "natural" to mean "unaltered/unaffected by humans", and "artificial" to mean "made by humans", so that's what they mean. Are you looking for some kind of deity to define English words for you?
- smsm42 3y agoFor me, it means nothing, it's just stupid confused term that some people use to try to appeal to some vague authority. That's why said it's not good or useful term and I wouldn't use it.