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Like any other species, at whatever cost.

It’s a mistake to view nature as “good” and technology as “bad”. The only similarity between them is their complete and utter moral neutrality.

Only a few of your fellow humans care about you, for sure, and only your technology is fully disposed to your orders; nature does not want you here anymore than it wants you gone.

Anthropomorphizing nature is a good way to end up disappointed, it’s not a being - it’s a composition of very complex systems, to quantify its “kindness” is not possible.

Humanity as we know it, has always had an incredible technological advantage, even just fire is orders of magnitudes higher advantage than something evolution can give you in a similar timeframe. In fact it’s so powerful, the first technology, that it literally modified our evolution to give us larger brains and closer societies - in some respects highly developed language owes its existence to fire.



Thank you, i never understood how somebody can anthropomorphize the constant conflict in nature around us.

Every tree murders the Savannah below, every Savannah fire is a attempt to get back more land for the grass.

Nothing out there is peaceful, even with all hostile predators removed, the battle of each system component against the others continuous.


Right, the fact that nature works with so many systems in constant conflict is a lot of the beauty of it.


Fires are actually a pretty important part of grass and tree ecology! Cleansing, reproductive fire.




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