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Why natural should mean "things undisturbed by human activity". This is just an arbitrary moral choice.



Natural already means "things undisturbed by human activity", among a good lot of other things. As long as there's a clear need for such a word, it would do us good to have a separate word for that, like notmanmade or whatever, because that would make discussions clearer.




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