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Old 04-12-2008, 02:50 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by to_hobbes View Post
If you insist, but I think consuming resources in the environment to the point of self destruction is not unnatural because a lot of things that aren't human do exactly that (e.g. any parasite).
But you probably know me by now, I have a tendency to re-define words, like "natural" or "free will", if you have been paying to the stuff I write in other threads.
As far as we know parasites do not have the knowledge that the consumption of those resources will lead to their own destruction, humans do.

Human intelligence puts us in a seperate category I believe, as far as what is natural, good, or bad.
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