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The issue is that many people don't consider humans as part of the natural world.
Which is a ridiculous concept to me.
A beaver dam is a natural as the hoover dam. Both represent a species altering the environment for their benefit.
The problem is just that if "natural" doesn't mean "not made by humans" then it doesn't really mean anything at all. If the things people made are natural, what's excluded by using the word, exactly?
The supernatural
And the subnatural!
Walking through the health food aisle like "thank God I finally found some ghost-free food!"
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