[cornelis]

Just Damn!


Honestly, the imputed indifference of nature is as faulty to me as some hylozoistic fear of its antagonism. All the same, human agency cannot be abstracted from scientific thinking. "It" doesn't think; humans do.

[general_re]

Honestly, the imputed indifference of nature is as faulty to me as some hylozoistic fear of its antagonism.

The laws of physics will tell you what is likely to happen if you drive down an icy road at eighty miles an hour in a car with bald tires. But it's up to you to decide whether those consequences are good or bad - the inexorable laws themselves know not, nor do they care.

"It" doesn't think; humans do.

Precisely. "It" also doesn't act to create an immoral world, while we're at it; humans do.

[jennyp]

hylozoistic fear

I'm surprised I even found that word in the dictionary!