[split] On Human Nature

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Okay but that is so vague. You say we have imbalances, yet have no measure of what constitutes balance?

It seems like this whole thing comes back to an assessment of human greed. That's the finger that's being pointed, toward greediness. Is greediness unnatural?

We have four cats that live with us and we have a very bonded relationship, a house full of love. I am very hard-pressed to consider our little family 'unnatural'. If I was to use 'living in the wilds' as a basis for something being natural then on that alone humans stopped being 'natural' a long time ago. However, I don't believe nature actually keeps track of zones within itself, thinking "oh this area is wild and that area is civilized", to nature everything is just one continuous field.

This is why it bothers me when people try to use "nature" or "what is natural" to justify their own person opinions, because frankly you have no idea what nature 'thinks'.