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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 69686260" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>It's because we are the most evolved, most intelligent, and are the only species that has to tools to do that...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>How many fish have harnessed electricity?</p><p>How many possums practice medicine?</p><p>How many hummingbird engineers are out there?</p><p></p><p>While it's true that humanity has its flaws, it also exhibits many positive traits that would not exist if we were "living according to nature".</p><p></p><p>For example, laws to protect the smaller & weaker of our species.</p><p></p><p>We can go back to living purely in accordance with nature & natural instincts, but I don't think you'd like the result...</p><p></p><p>If someone is critically injured, no more calling an ambulance or taking them to a hospital...ambulances and hospitals are a form of being invasive...letting them die would be living according to nature. (skunks don't take other skunks to skunk hospitals, so we shouldn't do that either right?)</p><p></p><p>No more societal laws...as we are the only species that enforces a legal code in the interest of humanity, that's not living in accordance to nature. In accordance with nature, the biggest, strongest, and most aggressive gets to eat, kill, or have sex with anything he wants, whenever he wants.</p><p></p><p>No more intervening on behalf of other species.</p><p><a href="http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/7-animals-saved-near-extinction" target="_blank">http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/7-animals-saved-near-extinction</a></p><p>...means we let these 7 species go extinct and let nature take its course</p><p></p><p>It also means no more equality for women. They're treated almost as property of the dominant male of the group...take a look at how some of our primate cousins live in the wild...is that how you'd really like to live? If I saw you as a suitable mate, and was big and strong enough to chase of your husband...guess what...</p><p></p><p>It seems that when people take the "we should live according to nature" stance, they're not fully thinking through exactly what that would entail.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To be quite honest, the "all species are the same, humans aren't any better" is borderline laughable (to me at least), the very fact that you & I are debating each other on magic plastic boxes that that allow us to communicate in real time from different parts of the world by transferring our ideas through the air waves is proof positive that we're a distinct cut above every other species on the planet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 69686260, member: 123415"] It's because we are the most evolved, most intelligent, and are the only species that has to tools to do that... How many fish have harnessed electricity? How many possums practice medicine? How many hummingbird engineers are out there? While it's true that humanity has its flaws, it also exhibits many positive traits that would not exist if we were "living according to nature". For example, laws to protect the smaller & weaker of our species. We can go back to living purely in accordance with nature & natural instincts, but I don't think you'd like the result... If someone is critically injured, no more calling an ambulance or taking them to a hospital...ambulances and hospitals are a form of being invasive...letting them die would be living according to nature. (skunks don't take other skunks to skunk hospitals, so we shouldn't do that either right?) No more societal laws...as we are the only species that enforces a legal code in the interest of humanity, that's not living in accordance to nature. In accordance with nature, the biggest, strongest, and most aggressive gets to eat, kill, or have sex with anything he wants, whenever he wants. No more intervening on behalf of other species. [URL]http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/7-animals-saved-near-extinction[/URL] ...means we let these 7 species go extinct and let nature take its course It also means no more equality for women. They're treated almost as property of the dominant male of the group...take a look at how some of our primate cousins live in the wild...is that how you'd really like to live? If I saw you as a suitable mate, and was big and strong enough to chase of your husband...guess what... It seems that when people take the "we should live according to nature" stance, they're not fully thinking through exactly what that would entail. To be quite honest, the "all species are the same, humans aren't any better" is borderline laughable (to me at least), the very fact that you & I are debating each other on magic plastic boxes that that allow us to communicate in real time from different parts of the world by transferring our ideas through the air waves is proof positive that we're a distinct cut above every other species on the planet. [/QUOTE]
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