Amusing statement by Nature

Amusing Statement of Nature (Not translated by S. Schein)

Our treatment of Nature, the way we destroy it, shows that we have moved away from a dependency which is fundamental: our morals is hidden, like the secret of love, within Nature, which human beings are only a part of and not meant to rule over, so to destroy Nature is to destroy our own morals and that secret which is hidden within Nature: this is humans destroying the humane as long as Nature represent moral values that should be treated with respect. But even this seems to imply that human beings should take care only because of themselves. What about the respect which grows from the acknowledgement that Nature is not owned by us, has its own laws and value? It seems that human beings did not invent human beings or gravity. To see the destruction of Nature, is to see our own moral state – or, it seems, not to see it at all. This, too, implies that our values are artificial: the way the ego is valued in society so people can make money, the trip in commercials and the media, where we praise disease, young beautiful people and their physical ego-diseases, anorexia, the construction of identity which is defined by making paranoid enemies when we "black-and-white" things, constantly reaching for the easiest truth, the lack of human responsibility – and, still, we are laughing and amusing ourselves while this world is mistreated and maybe even destroyed: lack of ability to identify the pain we should be feeling had we just been loyal to our origin.

    Science offers a possibility to change Nature in human beings and touch that hidden – and maybe holy – secret, and it seems that it will do so as long as it is "free of value," and is only ruled by necessity, so that every new possibility most also be realized. But being "free of value" is a way of letting scientists do everything that is necessary, and everything is necessary: science, too, is a value that can not be hidden as if, relieved, we did not even choose it.

    Is it good to change Nature, so we can live longer, be happier and more productive, more beautiful and perfect, is it good to abolish the weak, which may remind us of something, good giving powerful people the opportunity of ruling over us by biological determinism, or would we like to think that we are free – of value?