I'm confused by the way the term "natural" is popularly used. Don't people really mean "not affected by humans" when they say that? Isn't that kinda anti-human? A bird building a nest is "natural", but not a human building a house? A bear mauling and killing a racoon for straying into its den is "natural", but not a human shooting and killing a coyote on his property.
What do you mean when you use the word "natural"?
2006-12-27 18:19:16 · 10 answers · asked by godlessinaz 3 in Environment
"Natural means from Nature" is a circular argument. What's "Nature"? Humans are natural, unless you believe we were magicked here by some fairy or god, but then everything was magicked here, so where's "Nature", again?
2006-12-27 18:26:57 · update #1
I believe it to be exactly what you have said, "not affected by humans", the way "nature intended it to be." I intend to agree that this thinking is pretty much anti-human bias and agree 100% that humans should be included because we are an intregal part of nature.
2006-12-27 18:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by bill g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Natural means not man-made. There's a long tradition of drawing a line with humans on one side and the rest of the world on the other, and it starts with the bible, when god set man apart from the animals and plants and gave him dominion over them.
Well some of us haven't been so good with the whole dominion thing and have developed a reputation for messing natural things up (think polar bears that were just put on endangered species list). So that's why natural is good and non-natural is bad. Plus the guy who built my house eats hot pockets and nobody can argue that there's anything natural about those freaky things.
2006-12-28 02:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural is a original presence in the universe with out the efforts of human beings. Undiluted and unpolluted creation in the nature.
2006-12-28 02:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by naren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural as in from nature, etc.
Unnatural as in from manufactured
In advertising, hype to make unaware people perceive that their artificially created, overpriced foods are better for them than they may actually be. Adds to the cost.
2006-12-28 02:22:36 · answer #4 · answered by Donald W 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Natural means it wasn't reaked or boosted useing other things. Nature is natural--it was made simply by God, not man-made materials.
Useing a bunch of makeup on your face makes you look 'unnatural', because it's not your plain face--it was 'boosted' useing other materials--those materials being makeup.
2006-12-28 02:45:41 · answer #5 · answered by Midori 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Natural means Dogal in Turkish :))
2006-12-28 02:31:24 · answer #6 · answered by tezcan e 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Natural means that it had been like that since God created it.
2006-12-28 02:43:20 · answer #7 · answered by Czan 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I get bugged when people tell me to leave nature alone as if humans are not natural.
2006-12-28 02:27:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
natual comes from the latin naturalatio it was added to the spanish language in 1856, by julio jose ricardo robeto andrew rodriguez. he just died 53 years ago because of dictionarilizing the word natural. i have no idea what i just said and just ignore it...thanks for the points
2006-12-28 02:27:44 · answer #9 · answered by Sami 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
natural is the opposite of fake.
2006-12-28 02:26:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋