• TubularTittyFrog
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    18 days ago

    what is ‘natural’ life, being a sustenance farmer, and dying of starvation if you have a bad harvest?

    • Noobnarski
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      18 days ago

      Agriculture is already somewhat unnatural, so I guess a “natural” life would be hunter gatherers.

      • Buddahriffic
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        18 days ago

        Are you trying to say that we don’t follow the laws of nature? That our activities are supernatural?

        • silasmariner@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          18 days ago

          Buddy, what is natural about me, a person who has never met you, talking to you, a person I have never met. How the hell doss that make any sense. Fuckin’ superpowers m8. All up in this gadget.

          • Glytch
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            18 days ago

            I’d say this device I hold in my hands is the natural result of a social species who gained enough intelligence to mostly master their environment enough to spread globally, but still has the social need to stay connected to the tribe wherever they are.

        • Noobnarski
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          17 days ago

          Somewhat yes, nature usually tries to adapt to the environment, we are adapting the environment to us.

          I haven’t seen any other animal building roads and factories and cities.

      • Lemminary
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        17 days ago

        This is why I prefer the word synthetic and define around that.

      • TubularTittyFrog
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        18 days ago

        oh I see, so if you aren’t a roving band of stone age people, then it’s unnatural?

        and are these societies also matriarchal or something too, because you know the patriarchy is unnatural as well?

        • Noobnarski
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          17 days ago

          Kind of, humans were hunter gatherers for so long that we evolved to be good at it, so I guess that’s what would be natural for us.

          Agriculture and our current life hasn’t been around long enough for us to properly adapt to it.

          I have no idea if those societies were patriarchal or matriarchal, I would imagine both happened or maybe even some sort of equality, if you want to know more about this go ask an expert in the field.

          But in the end I don’t care what you do, I just continued your argument.