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[HydrogenBond]

Natural and unnatural is not really a good argument, when it comes to human behavior, because all that is natural human may not be progressive for humans. For example, it is natural for animals to relieve themselves of body wastes, where they stand. Although this is natural for animals and maybe for even humans, it does not work out well for humans living in civilization, since this particular natural behavior would lead to unsanitary conditions, that would cause disease. This natural behavior may have worked for pre-humans living in small groups within nature, due to a natural balance.

Modern humans could go back to this natural way, if culture provided the logistical support to make it possible. For example, if we had an army of millions of do-do cleaners, whose job was to clean up and sanitize the waste, where it falls, we could go back to this natural. But without this prosthesis, this particular natural would have an adverse effect. In this case, new instinct is needed.

If culture took away all the logistical prosthesis, connected to all the natural instincts that science has found, which of these could continue to thrive in civilization, without any adverse effect to the group? For example, sexual promiscuity may be quite natural, but if we took away all the prosthesis, to make it completely natural, (no do-do cleaners), it would lead to all types of disease. The ancients did not have the logistics for the needed prosthesis to keep the old way going. They saw the need to advance culture into the way of the new instinct.

Institutions, like marriage, does not require the same prosthesis as the natural way, even if it is not natural. It is just more advanced as a function of required prosthesis. Gays are trying to move in the direction of this cultural advancement, but some are trying to leave them in the retro of natural animals, which data could show to have the higher prosthesis cost.

Science appears to be working under the false assumption that natural is better in all cases, because this is a cultural buzz word that sells soap and snake oil. What we should do is an objective study, to see if new instinct in more advanced, relative to natural instinct, based on tangible cost. This will take it out of subjective opinion and turn the subject into objectivity.