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[–] purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 32 points 7 months ago (8 children)

It's cute and all but... I really hate that arguement. If it wasn't natural, it wouldn't make it any less moral. We don't need to play by their rhetorical rules. I know that this is just a cute thing, but I see this kind of things all the time and I feel quite strongly about it. So what if I wasn't born this way? So what if it's not natural? Does it somehow make things worse? Or is just an excuse to justify hatred of something that just grosses the 'phobes out?... y'know?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Glasses are not natural, pacemakers are not natural, cars are not natural.

Anyone who uses "not natural" as an argument while not living in a brush hut and cooking over a woodfire is just a hypocrite

[–] Regdok@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We're the only species that can make our own fires. So unless you stumble upon a fire that has started because of a lightning strike or something, cooking over a fire is pretty unnatural. Then again we are part of nature, so anything we do is natural 🤷‍♂️

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