I think the problem with this argument is the assumption that nature is inherently good. Nature is cruel and uncaring. Moving beyond it is a good thing imo. We’re just lucky that as a species by the roll of the dice we were given the power by nature to usurp it.

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dowager_dan99 4 months ago | parent | next [-]

>> Nature is cruel and uncaring

These are not the same thing. You're interpreting "uncaring" as inherently cruel, but it's not; just uncaring.

	▲	freejazz 4 months ago \| parent [-]
		That's not what "and" means

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kelnos 4 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nature is not cruel, don't anthropomorphize it. Nature has no free will or emotions or intelligence. It is indeed uncaring, because it doesn't have the capacity to care. Nature is neither good nor bad. It just is.

Whether or not it is moral or ethical to eat animals is an arbitrary decision made by emotional beings. There is no right or wrong there, only what people feel.

Someone who is vegetarian or vegan for moral reasons is making a choice, not living some sort of universal truth. Someone who eats meat is also making a choice.

Someone who eats meat but criticizes others for eating the "wrong" kind of meat is a hypocrite.

Certainly the way we farm animals for food can be sustainable or unsustainable. I wish people would focus more on that aspect than pointing fingers and making it a moral issue.

	▲	Reasoning 4 months ago \| parent [-]
		> Nature is not cruel, don't anthropomorphize it. You're defining the word cruel to narrowly. Per Merriam-Webster "causing or conducive to injury, grief, or pain" and Cambridge "(of an event) causing suffering". Natural forces can be cruel. So can fate and life.

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Psillisp 4 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Literally picking a fight with Nature, what a trope.

What will they think of next man versus self? What if the thing that man creates in his hubris isn’t actually better?

	▲	jamiek88 4 months ago \| parent [-]
		What if it is? We transcend nature and evolution because of our culture and foresight. We are the ultimate result of 4 billion years of evolution. Nature has made itself redundant in some ways. Actually, transcend is the wrong word we are still a part of nature of course but we can literally leave the planet and have the ability to irradiate this globe to erase most macroscopic life. We are an outside context problem as an Iain Banks Ship Mind would say. It’s a huge responsibility and opportunity that we will almost certainly squander.

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simplify 4 months ago | parent | prev [-]

You really need to define "good" in this sentence. How can nature move beyond nature?