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The Words Of A Page Are Strings To Pull

Full time multi fandom shitposter, part time artist.

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I Find The Argument Of Its Unnatural A Stupid One. Nature Is Just The Way Living Creatures Interact With

I find the argument of “it’s unnatural” a stupid one. Nature is just the way living creatures interact with each other. We are living creatures. We are animals, and even if we live in these big complexes, we made those big complexes. Ants live in these big colonies that they build, and in a way our cities are just colonies on a much larger scale. Unlike ant colonies however, our systems also evolve. From steam to gasoline our machines evolve too. And do you know why that is? It’s because humans evolved the capabilities to transfer knowledge between generations, and have enough storage for knowledge to understand that despite just how much information there is to be understood. The collective knowledge we hold is unique to humanity, but every animal has unique traits. How is everything humans do not part of the natural order? When did humans start seeing themselves as separate from it?

Now when we talk about things like factories, gender equality, and sexuality, people often say “its just not natural.” And this argument doesn’t make sense to me. Everything is natural. The only thing unnatural would be me suddenly breaking the laws of physics and levitating off the ground. The idea of nature is a complex idea that we broadly ascribe to plants and animals and the earth. The thing with complex ideas is that you cannot just say that something isnt part of the complex idea. Complex ideas are abstract and often can be applied to anything if you decide to look hard enough and ask enough questions about it. So a definitive “it’s not natural” is both an incorrect and true statement. It all is really subjective and if you’re going to try to convince me of something using that as your argument, what’s stopping me from interpreting that in a direction that goes the opposite of what you were trying to say. Say I’m a trans person and you argue “it’s not natural”. What’s stopping me from saying “since when has humanity given a damn about what’s natural” or “but it is natural, I am human and therefore it is natural.” Or even just “ok.”

TL;DR

“It’s not natural” is a dumb argument for literally anything and people need to find better arguments to make when defending their point.


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