The difference between laws of humanity and the laws of nature is quite simple. It has to do with the level of restriction, human laws restrict options, nature maximizes them.

<h3>Everything is possible but don't do that</h3><div class="pull-right">https://i.imgur.com/grtCvAR.jpg</div>


This means that whatever is possible, is possible in nature. It achieves this through the most simple experiment ever, randomization but, I would posit that it has no awareness of where is going to do or where it has come from. It only has the present moment and the tools it carries at that time to utilize in the environment of that time.
Things move in the environment and that movement creates movements in things which means there is a continuous change of micro reactions and these reactions cause random breakages in an uncountable number of ways. These breakages can cause something to become weaker and less suited for the current environment or more suited, decreasing or increasing chances of survival.

If something survives, it will continue on moving and its changed state which will create different interactions and reactions and of course, lead to more breakages that weaken or strengthen.

By definition, nothing humans can do can possibly lay outside of nature as nature is unbounded, we cannot break its laws for it is lawless. We can however move in ways that can impact upon parts within nature and we can see this quite clearly in the general state of the environment today compared to what it was.

<h3>The thick and thin skinned</h3>

No matter what we do though, nature is always safe, we however are not. Even though pat of it, we are not well suited to  playing this random, lawless game ourselves. The reason is that we have a vested interest in outcomes. That is, we want to live and continue our species but, this is not guaranteed like the existence of nature. We take damage and are prone to the breakages that make us stronger or weaker.

So, to protect ourselves, we make human laws in a vain attempt to control nature. In the short-term this can work but as we move and all else moves, the laws created to protect will eventually fail and perhaps even turn harmful for our continued existence. We could see this with the introduction of fire which has kept us warm and done little harm at one point but, it had a knock-on effect until we advanced it into the most complex machines the earth has likely ever seen. 

These have of course proliferated and caused pollution that at some point, will either kill our ability to feed ourselves or the human body will not be able to process and will kill us directly. In many places, this can already be witnessed.

<h3>Don't, for your own good</h3><div class="pull-right">https://i.imgur.com/73HnGE1.jpg</div>

While we are slowly killing ourselves, nature is continuing along the evolutionary pathway and our interactions feed into it too. Regardless of how important we see ourselves, nature is not invested in our particular survival at all. It is not invested in any particular outcome other than the simple experiment that creates all complexity.

This experiment is leading somewhere though it seems as it is continually building more and more information through an exponentially growing number of interactions that feed its experiment. There may be no end goal at all and what will be will be regardless of what we do.

But, for our own existence within this far greater system, our actions do matter and how we interact with the environment and each other is paramount to our survival. Yet, we are failing quite quickly at this it seems. 

Disease is increasing, as is the technology and destructive power of the weaponry we create. Nature creates. We keep increasing the complexity of the world in which we operate just as nature has intended but, it is not conducive to our survival. The higher the complexity, the more breakages and the more breakages, the less able we become to adapt to the environment.

If the seas raise a meter, we are in trouble, if the temperature raises or falls a few degrees, we are in trouble, if the oceans change directions or the rain stops, or doesn't stop, if the air becomes polluted, the water undrinkable the ground acidic... we are in trouble.

<h3>When it ends, it doesn't</h3><div class="pull-right">https://i.imgur.com/wipyDpe.jpg</div>

The brilliance of nature however means it is always safe. It doesn't matter if we nuke this planet until there is not one living organism above or below the surface, nature will continue on. It is a flawless system because to have a flaw, a rule must be broken and that rule does not exist in nature. It need not be aware, it can be completely uninterested and unguided. What it is however is free. 

The interesting thing that humans do though is through their laws they take away this freedom and impose restrictions. And through the various divisions and cultures with a growing amount of complexity, more and more conflict will be seen until eventually, there will be a the kind of war there is no coming back from, no one left able to keep going.

Must it be this way, is that the nature of things? Or, is it just the nature of us, products of nature's randomized experiment and too stupid to learn that our adaptation to the changing environment means we must work together as a community?

Taraz
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