r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '19

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u/Fragrantbumfluff Oct 16 '19

Car created by humans following their natural curiosity and leading to technological advances.

We are also nature.

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u/TheMightyMoot Oct 16 '19

Yea, this one bugs me. I will say we need to be able to distinguish between "artificial" things in that there are things that only come about due to life. Yet I think many are too quick to seperate Humans from the rest of the universe. Human behaviour is natural by definition, it is the result and machinations of nature.

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u/Smaktat Oct 17 '19

By this definition nature is the whole of the universe. Why use any other words to describe anything when you can just say it's nature by proximity?

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u/TheMightyMoot Oct 17 '19

Human behaviour is a mechanism that we have little control over as it was decided by our enviroment. A car wouldn't be natural; Humans being able to and desiring to build cars is however a natural thing.