Just something I was talking about with the wife this evening. She says that our house is not natural and used the phrase “out in nature”. But lots of animals build nests. And are we not animals just doing the same?

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The issue is that many people don’t consider humans as part of the natural world.

    Which is a ridiculous concept to me.

    A beaver dam is a natural as the hoover dam. Both represent a species altering the environment for their benefit.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is just that if “natural” doesn’t mean “not made by humans” then it doesn’t really mean anything at all. If the things people made are natural, what’s excluded by using the word, exactly?