Growing up, I have encountered people who are okay with artificial developments such as vaccines and GMOs. I also have encountered people who are not okay with “unnatural” methods, as they believe that 100% natural should be the way to go. But natural is not always good all the time.
… Given a choice, most people gravitate toward the natural over the artificial. After all, natural environments are preferable to garbage dumps, natural foods are nearly always healthier than stuff concocted in a chemistry lab. Yet it needs to be said loud and clear: Just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s good. “Smallpox is natural,” Ogden Nash noted. “Vaccine ain’t.” …
Reading 19th-century critic and essayist John Ruskin, who wrote “There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather,” one cannot help conclude that Mr. Ruskin didn’t get out much. By the same token, “doing what comes naturally” can be very bad advice indeed.
Read more of David Barash’s article about this over at Nautilus.
What are your thoughts about this one?
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Is natural better than artificial, you ask while in an artificial dwelling built by artificially handled materials and techniques worked by artificial tools on a device that is very artificial using an artificial communication method to communicate with highly organised artificial networks and wearing artificial clothing, powered by artifice, maintained by food methods that - even if the product was once natural - have highly deviated from nature in both methodology and product, reliant upon artificial healthcare and societal constructs and security and roads and water treatment and education and tools and so on and so on and so on. Nothing we humans do it close to the way anything much "naturally" happens - especially not on the internet....
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