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The Naturalistic Fallacy of Artificial Things
For most of human history, the natural way was at least sufficient for our species to make it this long. But over the last couple of centuries or so there have been a lot of artificial things that either like directly caused a lot of problems and maybe aren't found out about until years or decades later. Like air pollution is a good example of that. I'm not hyper skeptical of some artificial things that have actually gone through appropriate approval processes. The public health agencies are generally pretty good. And my perspective is less that like the hard version of the naturalistic fallacy of just like, what is artificial is good and what is, or what is natural is good andwhat is artificial is bad.
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