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Originally Posted by John Prophet  Why does everyone seemed to think that because something is natural that it's necessarily “good”? For all of its “naturalness”, nature can be very cruel and indifferent.
But what’s even more amusing is the idea that we humans should care about what’s “natural”. I like artificiality! And history has shown that humans seem to thrive under conditions which have been customized to suit our needs. In fact, we practically demand that we live a largely fabricated existence (just look at what we’re doing right now, lol). I agree that nature does have its merits and we must work with it to a certain extent. But just as its can be very beautiful, it can also be harsh and uncomfortable. Love-of-all-things-natural is one of those things that people preach about more than they practice. This tells me that it sounds good in theory, but really isn’t the most preferable choice in practice (notice that when it comes to engaging in natural selection, most people suddenly don’t want to side with the “natural” thing anymore).
It’s a mistake to assume that natural = good. |
Nature is never good or bad. Without Humans those idea's don't exist. However, many of us suffer from departing too far from nature. We have chronic mental and physical illness, human suffering, and a host of other things because we are separated from our natural state. It's best not to look at good and bad.
It's better to look and constructive and destructive. Those of course have to be in relation to something specific. In a NPC view of things there is no specific thing that is impacted by factory farms (aside from some health issues) in a constructive or destructive way. You never see the impact on animals, the environment, and public health. Therefore you don't feel that factory farming is constructive or destructive. You have no reference to decide, so you just follow along. If however you take the wider, lightworker, view and value the environment, animals, and rain forests as part of yourself. You realize quickly that all of these things are impacted in a Destructive manner by factory farming. Or, you could take the darkworker view and see this destructive impact and believe that it is separate from you, and therefore inconsequential.
In the first case you are largely unaware of your darkworking and in the last you are very aware of it (like those that run the farms and are happy to cause suffering for personal gain). In the first case you are an NPC, in the second you are a villain. All of this without the relatively useless good/bad judgment.