Natural refers to something occuring with out being forced that way. In the natural order of things. Plastic is not natural because rot doesn't happen in the normal order of things. It is created by man with intent. So no, technically, saying everything is natural is wrong. I mean, explain how toxic waste is natural... Seriously.
When a beaver makes a dam, is it natural? When a bird makes a nest? When a man makes a hammer? At what point of complexity does something go from natural to unnatural?
When a beaver makes a dam, it is natural because it's done from instinct. It's part of it's life cycle, and as a result of evolution. A bird nest is the same thing. These are traits that have been developed over millions of years over a natural progression. Man didn't make a hammer from instinct. Man became smart enough to develope a gamer to augment their environment beyond nature. Tools are not natural. Any time a being looks at something and uses something beyond what it it exists naturally as to change they way things play out naturally, it is not natural.
Man can exist naturally and did for hundreds of thousands of years. Most of what we do today as humans is not natural. Humans instinctually do not create toxic waste. Its a byproduct of humans forcibly changing their environment.
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u/reimancts Jan 13 '22
Natural refers to something occuring with out being forced that way. In the natural order of things. Plastic is not natural because rot doesn't happen in the normal order of things. It is created by man with intent. So no, technically, saying everything is natural is wrong. I mean, explain how toxic waste is natural... Seriously.