David_J_Balan comments on The Value of Nature and Old Books - Less Wrong

7 Post author: David_J_Balan 25 October 2009 06:14PM

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Comment author: David_J_Balan 25 October 2009 07:31:25PM 0 points [-]

Clearly nothing is perfectly "uncontaminated." You can't entirely escape the world which formed you. The question is whether there is something that gets you some decent part of the way there, and it seems to me that nature has that property. This does not mean that it is the only thing of value in the world, and it does not mean that people who don't regard it as a value should be ignored.

Comment author: DanArmak 25 October 2009 07:55:44PM 0 points [-]

Why do you think nature has that property?