A matter of Brains
Some people always argue in favor of mother nature. They think mushrooms are better than acid because they're "natural." Honk honk! Welcome to reality! You're a moron! Man spends time to develop and improve upon natures existing creations. If you think the natural version is better, it's probably because you're just not into the ideal. People are aware. People manipulate. People create their own environment. As a society we're able to manipulate it directly with money. And while chinchillas probably wouldn't worry much about fur coats, I'm sure as fuck they'd like to manipulate their environment enough to not be killed for their fur.
The problem is the view of nature is too limited. Because mother nature happens to provide you with some thing that provides a lot of the things you like, it's natural. What the fuck? The universe allowed some cosmic processes to happen and suddenly a smiling mother figure. The same mother figure could just as well be mother nature choking her little Asian baby with tsunamai in the background. Mother nature is a force in the universe. She is not necessarily aware of us as lesser forces, nor being able to combat it. It would be like trying to imagine the germs inside your body. Just because it's in your body doesn't mean you're fond of it and want to keep it around. It's how it affects you. And how it affects you isn't its fault, it's just watching out for itself. If that happens to make something it doesn't even comprehend, it's not good or evil. It's just acting in its own self interest. And if it could communicate with it's fellow germs I very greatly doubt it would argue that the human body had a benign presence towards it, or would really care about you beyond your usefulness.
No, the point because "nature" is just a series of processes we aren't able to manipulate. We can point to where we have established dominance, and displayed our graciousness in the ability where we allow nature to survive. Once we shine the light of science on our environment, the smaller the shadows that look like nature survive. But we'll take the limits of the shadow every time. Nature is only useful to have around until we outgrow its usefulness. An important thing to note, however, is that emotional attachment DOES happen. I don't really want to live in a space station, but there'd be a point where things would become so Blade-runner esque I'd want to leave. Don't forget everything has a life, where it is affected by forces beyond (or beneath) its understanding. For us to be attribute any characteristic to a germ, would be conceptually the same as trying to apply it to earth. Large, small, both by their scientific names, lifespan, and so on. But "good or evil" don't fit the bill.
And there COULD be forces beyond (or above, or beneath) our understanding that COULD be seen as good or evil. Who knows why? To them our lives could be lightbulbs. On one level of existence, our lives could literally be fuses being blown out. Point being, it doesn't have to make any sense, necessarily. It's a fucking higher level of being, it MAY be beyond our comprehension. Try to dig that for a second, our levels of relative power are so different its basic motivations dont make sense. And because of this, some things might have it out for us, and some might want to look out for us. And those reasons might be fluid. So, yeah, conceptual beings COULD have good and evil applied to them in a limited sense.
But Mother Earth is not one of them. If it's natural and it's better, that's fucking cool. But I think more often than not we can manipulate our environment enough to at least slightly improve what's handed to us. So if mother nature is that fucking cool, go become one of those raw food fucks. Or, even better, let me act as a force of nature and blow your brains out, since you're obviously not using them. Delicious, jellomeat brains.
The problem is the view of nature is too limited. Because mother nature happens to provide you with some thing that provides a lot of the things you like, it's natural. What the fuck? The universe allowed some cosmic processes to happen and suddenly a smiling mother figure. The same mother figure could just as well be mother nature choking her little Asian baby with tsunamai in the background. Mother nature is a force in the universe. She is not necessarily aware of us as lesser forces, nor being able to combat it. It would be like trying to imagine the germs inside your body. Just because it's in your body doesn't mean you're fond of it and want to keep it around. It's how it affects you. And how it affects you isn't its fault, it's just watching out for itself. If that happens to make something it doesn't even comprehend, it's not good or evil. It's just acting in its own self interest. And if it could communicate with it's fellow germs I very greatly doubt it would argue that the human body had a benign presence towards it, or would really care about you beyond your usefulness.
No, the point because "nature" is just a series of processes we aren't able to manipulate. We can point to where we have established dominance, and displayed our graciousness in the ability where we allow nature to survive. Once we shine the light of science on our environment, the smaller the shadows that look like nature survive. But we'll take the limits of the shadow every time. Nature is only useful to have around until we outgrow its usefulness. An important thing to note, however, is that emotional attachment DOES happen. I don't really want to live in a space station, but there'd be a point where things would become so Blade-runner esque I'd want to leave. Don't forget everything has a life, where it is affected by forces beyond (or beneath) its understanding. For us to be attribute any characteristic to a germ, would be conceptually the same as trying to apply it to earth. Large, small, both by their scientific names, lifespan, and so on. But "good or evil" don't fit the bill.
And there COULD be forces beyond (or above, or beneath) our understanding that COULD be seen as good or evil. Who knows why? To them our lives could be lightbulbs. On one level of existence, our lives could literally be fuses being blown out. Point being, it doesn't have to make any sense, necessarily. It's a fucking higher level of being, it MAY be beyond our comprehension. Try to dig that for a second, our levels of relative power are so different its basic motivations dont make sense. And because of this, some things might have it out for us, and some might want to look out for us. And those reasons might be fluid. So, yeah, conceptual beings COULD have good and evil applied to them in a limited sense.
But Mother Earth is not one of them. If it's natural and it's better, that's fucking cool. But I think more often than not we can manipulate our environment enough to at least slightly improve what's handed to us. So if mother nature is that fucking cool, go become one of those raw food fucks. Or, even better, let me act as a force of nature and blow your brains out, since you're obviously not using them. Delicious, jellomeat brains.