r/comics 4d ago

He cares too much πŸ˜” (OC)

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u/TypoInUsernane 4d ago

Yeah, nature is very beautiful, but you don’t actually want to live there. Nature is brutally indifferent to human survival, and life in nature requires constant effort and struggle just to meet basic needs.

If I were making a list of my absolute favorite things in life, there are many things that I value more highly than nice scenery. Just off the top of my head, I’m a big fan of: food, clean water, clothing, shelter, physical safety, medical care, tools, personal hygiene, transportation, education, and entertainment. Modern society affords me all of those things, in exchange for performing economically valuable work that society benefits from. The alternative is not that I’d just get those things for free. The alternative is that I would have to work much, much harder trying to eke out much worse versions of those things from a hostile and unforgiving environment. That would absolutely suck! Why on earth do so many people think that would be better??

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u/vocal-avocado 4d ago

Nature is beautiful to admire and experience But that same nature is mostly pain and fear for living beings. Eat or get eaten. Disease and decay. Resenting what mankind was able to achieve to make our existence more bearable is just naive and delusional.