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8/21/2018 9:19:27 PM
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Should we humans use our strength (intelligence) to help nature?
In the video you see an example of humans helping an animal in need.
I ask myself this sometimes.
When I see an animal in trouble I try to help it. In pain I carry a hedgehog off the street, I take a weakened raven home with me, or I try figuring out why a female duck stands on the street at night and won't stop quacking. It didn't even try to flee from me, it bit me and insisted on staying on the street.
But should I do this?
Some people say we should not intervene in nature. But we humans with our intelligence are part of nature. Nature made us.
What is your stance on this?
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Edited by kellygreen45: 8/24/2018 1:01:28 PM[i]One day a couple of merchants in India pass an ascetic (Hindu wandering monk) who seems to be doing something rather strange. Concerned they walk up to him, and find that he is standing over a pool of water. In the water is a scorpion that appears to be drowning. The ascetic appeared to have been behaving oddly because he was trying to fish the scorpion out of the pool of water. One of the merchants said to the ascetic, "You know the scorpion doesn't realize that you're trying to help it. Its just going to try to sting you.!! Its just its nature. " The ascetic replied, "Yes, I do." The other merchant, confused at this, asked, "So why are you still trying to help it, if you know it will only try to sting you?" The ascetic replied,[/i] [b]"Because it is MY nature."[/b] The compassion of which you speak and are asking about is one of our defining traits as human beings. Especially our ability to show compassion in an altruistic manner, even when "rationally" speaking it may not make a whole lot of sense. If you are Christian, It is how we are created in God's Image. If you are a Buddhist, like I am, It is Avalokiteshvara. The Bodhisattva of Compassion. The Embodiment of the Enlightened Heart. "She Who Hears The Cries of the World". Westerners may be more familiar with her Chinese cultural manifestation: Kuan Yin. Or the face she wears in the West: Mary. The Madonna.
