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You are coming awfully close to completely destroying any distinction between artificial and natural. Raising animals for food is not a natural human instinct a
by howlin 12y ago
You are coming awfully close to completely destroying any distinction between artificial and natural. Raising animals for food is not a natural human instinct and there have been plenty of human societies that hunt rather than raise livestock. Call it for what it is: a (very old) technology.
- hcarvalhoalves 12y agoWould you say sex is just "old technology" for fertilization? Ultimately, how do you draw the line what is instinct or not? Everything a human does is what humans do, by definition.
- Terr_ 12y agoYou're telling me ant-behavior is artificial and they have technology?
- howlin 12y agoI'm saying ant behavior is artificial when humans emulate it. Just like humans flying isn't natural just because birds do it too.
- Terr_ 12y agoYou can't seriously be telling me that animal-husbandry is artificial... because early humans learned it from squinting at ants!? Or are you telling me the ants are the artificial ones, and they learned it from us? You claim there's a bright-line distinction between "natural" and "artificial", but so far your personal definitions appear to be illogical and mutable.