RE: Is long term monogamy unnatural for human beings?
April 2, 2018 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2018 at 12:48 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 2, 2018 at 12:25 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(April 2, 2018 at 12:10 pm)polymath257 Wrote: [...]Natural? it isn't natural to wear clothes or to live in buildings. [...]
Isn't it, though? If you're a member of a species, that doesn't have good protection from weather, in the form of fur, or fat, but does have a natural ability to solve those problems by creating such protection - what would be considered a "natural" behavior in a situation, when you have to migrate into less favorable climate, than the one you've evolved in?
The problem here is that people are equivocating and jumping to all different definitions of "natural" without being clear about it, or even realizing they're doing it.
If "natural" is opposed to "artifical" or "man-made", then no, clothes and buildings are not natural. But if "natural" is opposed to "supernatural" or "bad for you"(for those folks who like to commit the naturalistic fallacy), then of course it's natural.
