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To: Hermann the Cherusker
It is unnatural

You sound like an Earth-Firster.

Why are unnatural things wrong?

87 posted on 08/11/2004 8:41:21 AM PDT by Modernman (Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.)
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To: Modernman

All unnatural things are not wrong, but all unnatural human acts are because we are meant to behave in certain ways and not in others.

That is the basis of natural law theory. You are free to disagree with it, I suppose, though I would wonder what you substitute into its place.

Earth-Firsters mistakenly twist this to make unnatural things (i.e. human inventions) wrong. There is nothing inherently wrong in any human invention. They are just inanimate objects and procedures. Its the uses they are put to by humans which create good and evil, right and wrong.

Right and wrong are determined by human acts, not human objects.


99 posted on 08/11/2004 8:50:23 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Modernman

More precisely, the fallacy lies in an incorrect definition of "unnatural". As Heinlein (IIRC) put it, Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam.


126 posted on 08/11/2004 9:26:11 AM PDT by steve-b (Panties & Leashes Would Look Good On Spammers)
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