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Ask HN: Is Nature Tolerant or Discriminatory?

1 points by 6_6_6 3 years ago · 5 comments


sp332 3 years ago

Discriminating against things that are damaging or threatening helps over the short term. But over the long term, diversity leads to more adaptability. When things are going well, it can take a long time for a monoculture to find out that it has become vulnerable. Nature rewards adaptability... eventually.

h2odragon 3 years ago

"Nature" is not a singular entity to which one can ascribe emotions that happen in individual minds. I suspect the question is rooted in seeking an authority to (guide | blame for) your own emotions. I suggest that these individual judgements cannot be blamed on others; as you are the only person in your head, you're the only one to blame for the things happening there.

  • 6_6_6OP 3 years ago

    ^that is very human-centric emotional response.

    I would say nature/evolution is both

curtisblaine 3 years ago

Evolution is probably on of the the most exclusionary phenomenons that can be thought of: a race without rules to survive (and reproduce) at the expense of all others. Nature is the by-product of evolution. I would say discriminatory.

PaulHoule 3 years ago

Like the Scientific journal Nature or something else?

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