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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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Nature seeks equilibrium, which combats excellence. It only ever does what must be done, nothing more. Progress is only ever realized out of necessity and then only to the bare minimum.
Beavers build dams because they are semi-aquatic creatures. They alter the environment to give them a competitive advantage and flooding an area by piling a bunch of chewed up wood in a stream affords sufficient advantage, so that is where it stops.
It should also be noted that the beaver is a prime example of bastardization due to the wanton sloth of nature. It is a giant rat that lives in the water. It has adapted to a very particular environment by the happenstance of genetic variation. Is it better than all other wood-eating aquatic rats at being a wood-eating aquatic rat? Sure, but not because it is ideally suited to its environment. Rather it was better suited than alternatives which were not well suited at all since they have not survived.
If the standard for excellence is simply finishing, it is without significant relevance and no different from mediocrity.
Despite his frequent disdain for it, man enjoys the unique capacity to question and defy carnal impulse by which nature operates.
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Is it not in the nature of man to question and defy? If so, then isn't that natural within man?
Isn't it arrogant of man to think he knows what nature wants, needs, and how it operates. Once again is man apart of nature?