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To: Scenic Sounds

I don't know. What possible phenomena can occur that can be called unnatural? 'Natural' is as meaningless as 'organic.'


116 posted on 10/04/2004 9:23:20 AM PDT by TigersEye (Muslims and Democrats kill babies for fun and profit.)
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To: TigersEye
I don't know. What possible phenomena can occur that can be called unnatural? 'Natural' is as meaningless as 'organic.'

I agree, but it depends on how the term "natural" is used. If "natural" means only that something occurs in nature, then anything that occurs in nature is, I guess, natural.

Look at the arguments suggesting that rape can be viewed as natural. Isn't that what is being suggested - that rape is natural because it occurs in nature? Are there any other arguments being made in support of rape? I don't think so. I think that natural is just being used here in a descriptive sense that would include anything that happens in nature.

And, in that sense, it is also natural for other people to kill, castrate and/or imprison folks who attempt to use rape as a strategy - because that is what we do with such folks. ;-)

130 posted on 10/04/2004 9:33:12 AM PDT by Scenic Sounds (Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
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To: TigersEye
"'Natural' is as meaningless as 'organic.'"

I say heterosexual activity is "natural" because it can produce a "natural" product...another human being. The same is not so of homosexual activity.

On the other hand "orgasms" are natural, no matter how they are arrived at. (pun intended)

190 posted on 10/04/2004 11:07:20 AM PDT by Positive (There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
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