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Huh? The whole thing is that the natural order enforces itself, so if you don't respect it you will suffer from that.
me suffering the consequences of life saving antibiotics: 😱😱😱😱 (the natural order is to die of a bacterial infection)
It is certainly hard to swallow as an individual, but consistently rejecting natural selection through technological intervention does eventually create significantly greater crisis. It's a very difficult problem with modern medicine, where we can always keep more people alive, but the resources required to do so increase exponentially without limit. Death is ultimately one way that the natural world self regulates when any particular species outgrows it's environment.
Counterpoint: everything humans do is just an extreme version of other behaviors in the animal kingdom, therefore nothing we do is unnatural. The "natural order" is just doing whatever and following the laws of physics.
Certainly, and the consequences of such are also a part of the natural order. Unless you want to argue that free will is a myth, you ought to seriously consider working towards making better decisions rather than complaining about how things are.
Wouldn't a natural order imply a deterministic universe and thus no free-will?
That's a very interesting subject to explore. If you want my personal opinion on it, free will is an artifact of our limited nature and the resulting inability to consciously perceive how everything fits together in the big picture. It may not necessarily be true, but we also have no other way to live than to assume we can make decisions about what is a good and a bad idea, such as deciding that jumping off a cliff is a very bad idea which will likely result in our death.
You're confused. 'Survival of the fittest' doesn't mean physical strength, it means those who fill their niche in the world and live to reproduce. A lion that kills a million deer but dies without reproducing is an evolutionary failure.
Our environmental niche is to invent and experiment. Back in the day, people thought that cities had reached their natural limit because you couldn't have too many horses in one place. They thought people would never have heart transplants or IVF.
Correct.
And the "back in the day" you're referring to was barely a hundred years ago, just to give people some reference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1894
And I also don't think the earlier person realises that evolutionary pressures still apply despite medicine and tech removing some of things that limited us before.
That is to say that because we don't need to worry about certain things which used to be important, the pool of people now "competing" is larger, meaning that competition between needed traits is higher, making for "more fit" individuals.
In the sense that we don't need to worry about being physically strong anymore, so we can focus on cognition, and looking at history, the speed at which our intellect (or at least level of tech) has grown — as a species — is pretty fucking insane.
And we didn't even get into the fact that we're a few steps away from genetic manipulation on a wide scale.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/21/1239790816/first-pig-kidney-human-transplant
Pretty soon you will be able to grow an animal with transplantable kidneys, or hearts, or any organ.
That actually happens to be within my specific area of study, and you may be overstating things. We've only just scratched the surface of genetic manipulation, and nobody really knows how long it will take before we can design effective genetic code deliberately. So far we have determined the nucleotides which build the basic structure of DNA, and found correlation between certain blocks and traits exhibited, but it's not quite as simple as cutting and pasting those blocks like you're writing computer code. We have also found further layers of 'information storage' within DNA which relates to how those nucleotides are arranged, called epigenetics, which we barely know anything about at all. As things stand with our current level of knowledge, we have established an extremely extensive testing regime for any novel genetic product which takes decades to complete, and which nearly every product tested so far has failed to complete, often due to unexpectedly resulting in sterility and death. It's a very exciting science, and I have great hopes for what it can accomplish if we don't kill ourselves first, but it's a stretch to suggest that it's just around the corner.
I didn't mean that it was going to happen over night. But it only took them about 30 years to go from the Theory of Relativity to the A Bomb, and about 40 years to go from Goddard's first rocket to Man on the Moon.
That's not how evolution or natural selection works. Its a very difficult problem if you completely misunderstand it yea.
If humans aren't separate from nature, then anything humans create falls within "nature". Humans aren't the first species to create tools and create farms. Even art have been observed in other species.
As far a "paying attention to the nature order", I do have my concerns, but it has more to do with putting so much CO2 into the atmosphere that we cause runaway climate change. Not showing basic empathy to other humans is a departure from the "natural order".
The part of the brain that governs "Empathy" has been narrowed down to a region called "mirror neurons". It causes us to see ourselves in people we're observing. It's also directly responsible for how we learn tool use. Monkey 1 sees Monkey 2 put stick into anthill to get food, so Monkey 1 also puts stick into anthill.
I think people are getting their wires crossed by bringing prior bias into this discussion here. While I do agree with what you have said here, my personal understanding of the argument for respecting the natural order comes from seeing people make decisions which will naturally lead to their own inability to survive/procreate, then getting mad at others for failing to respect those decisions.
Define "Natural Order". It's often used to justify being shitty to other people by Social Darwinists/Libertarians/Manosphere types. If you use that term without elaborating exactly what you mean, you'll get slotted into one of those types because that's exactly what they do.
I literally just did in the comment that you replied too.
No, you were being vague. Give examples of what you mean.
who?
what did they decide to do?
how so? you seem to have a lot of experience seeing these admittedly horrific sounding situations play out. i think we all would benefit from hearing what is going on so that we can save ourselves from a similar scenario!
what 💀 “we can always keep more people alive” no we cant, people die all the time the fuk is u talking bout homie 😭 😭
You contradict yourself by saying that the natural order rules everything and humans have escaped it.
Besides, none of our technology has been around on a timescale meaningful to evolution. What your talking about is Social Darwinism.
Ants build large, elaborate and engineered structures and shape their environment to suit their needs by moving large quantities of earth, therefore ants are unnatural for not following the rules of nature and actively working to give themselves an evolutionary edge.
What do you mean by natural order?
In the broadest sense possible, the laws of physics and the world that is formed as a result.
I'll give you a little piece of advice, your argument is unconvincing without evidence.
Any claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. And I'm seeing a lot of complaining about other people asking for evidence and not a lot of evidence actually being produced.
but have you considered that asking for evidence makes you a sea lion 😔😔😔
I have not considered it, perhaps I should have lol
fun fact one of the first sea lions was Socrates 😞😞 truly so saddening #badfaith
Huh, who would have thought that asking questions to get people to clarify their arguments and defend their positions and not to derail the conversation was sealioning? Ya learn something new every day!
name 1 example and defend your position
What? O.o
name one example of your thesis statement and defend it please
I don't think you're understanding what I've said here...
yeah im totally misunderstanding you hence why im asking you to explain :D
No, I think you're behaving like a sea lion.
if you refuse to name one example of your so called “consequences of disrespecting the natural order” we must assume that you are behaving as a homophobic bigot. (on the off chance you don’t know, just a heads up, because that’s a common anti lgbt dog whistle.)
if you are here in good faith, give one material example of what you are saying.
Arf Arf Arf!
Edit: And just to note, I actually did engage with someone else who replied to my initial comment, who wasn't just blatantly fishing for an argument like you. Go look there if you want to see discussion over an example.
Lol you ignored them there, too.
right? it’s hilarious.
> enters comment section with dissenting opinion
> uses common homophobic transphobic misogynist dogwhistle
> accuses anyone asking for detail of “fishing for an argument”
boring and cringe.
And lazy. I want to feel something from my trolls. These aren't even worth the engagement.
literally so true. back in my day trolls had grit, real integrity and commitment to their craft.
now it’s just “arf arf” and a few sad gaslighting attempts
disclaimer
i don’t actually support trolling this is satireYea, you're definitely just fishing for an argument.
Why did you even comment if you weren't willing to elaborate
The natural order is me smashing your skull in and taking your shit.
Natural order lead to the the human developing tools and the brains to question things. Oops.