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It seems odd to me that you would be frustrated about a fact of the natural world that you have no entitlement to expect it to be different.
by giantg2 2y ago
It seems odd to me that you would be frustrated about a fact of the natural world that you have no entitlement to expect it to be different.
- hitekker 2y agoDeep down, many people want to be a kind of god. Our technological progress lets that illusion of godhood seem achievable.
- artistic_regard 2y ago[dead]
- hackable_sand 2y agoSome people just take longer than others. I'm gonna be as patient as I can be with them.
- tim333 2y agoWhy shouldn't we be frustrated by aspects of the natural world? Bad weather, disease, death and so on. Was eliminating smallpox odd because we had no entitlement expect to that?
- giantg2 2y agoThose things are about the timeliness - bad weather one day vs another, some people get the disease and others don't, early death verses a longer life. It's about what is reasonable to expect. It might be reasonable to expect good weather on a specific day, or even to live past the age of 50. It's unreasonable to expect to live indefinitely.
- tim333 2y agoYeah it's probably not 'reasonable' to expect to live on. But sometimes the technical possibilities open up to do something new. Shaw quote: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’
- giantg2 2y agoSure, if the situation changes in the future, then it could be reasonable. That's not the case currently.
- skeaker 2y agoIronic that you would post this to a digital forum, the very concept of which would never be found and nature to the point that it would be beyond fiction and magic only a few hundred years ago. Nature has no inherent will and very often does things that are awful, like cancer. If anything it's our obligation to correct its failures where we can.