Natural Stamp

It’s good to do what you enjoy. I don’t think pleasure is a sin at all, unless it harms others. But the problem with us, people, is that we like to defend what we enjoy by saying that it’s normal. We justify our craziest actions by accusing evolution for giving us developed brains and hands. We justify cruelty by saying it’s an inborn instinct. On the other side, if there’s something we don’t like, some of us either say that it’s abnormal, or that we’re civilized enough to choose reason over instincts.

-We all have the right to watch TV, play video games and surf the Web. We take those things for granted even though they are not something that nature has given us.

-I have the right not to eat corpses no matter whether or not people are carnivores in nature. When I see ham, it always comes to my mind that it once was a piece of someone’s leg. If we are naturally not meant to think of meat as of something that was once alive, fine. To me, cruelty is an unnecessary instinct unless it’s essential to survive in the wild. Some of the instincts that died in us are more important. We consume more natural resources than we should, so I’m glad I can abstain from consuming at least one. It’s just me, so no offense.

-I don’t think that someone who has sex for fun and not for its primary purpose is more normal than an asexual. However, to me neither choice is wrong and choosing either way is better than having as many children as one’s body is capable to produce.

-Of course, the craziest thing is to say that someone is not normal because that person wears something different or listens to something different. There is no normal or abnormal when it comes to clothes and music, because styles were invented by people, besides, it’s the matter of taste.

Let’s admit it, many things we do are not natural. That isn’t going to stop us from doing them. So let’s not insult people who do not enjoy something we can’t live without by saying they’re detached from nature and stuff like that. You can’t force another person to like something, especially when it’s a matter of feelings, not choice. Besides, most of the “natural” things we are given are meant for survival, not pleasure, in the first place. So let’s just enjoy things without inventing excuses to do so. Defending all the crap we do by calling it the will of nature and rejecting things that we do not consider natural doesn’t make someone a nature-lover.

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Civilized comments, please. I’m not a person who likes to see people kill each other while commenting. ^^ You don’t have to agree with me for me not to hate you.