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Re:The Refragmentation by wyager on Saturday January 02, 2016 @03:16PM (#10827697)
The appeal to nature fallacy us to claim that something is right because it's "natural". It's not necessarily wrong to say that something can't (practically) be changed because it's natural. In this sense, natural means "an (emergent) property of nature". For example, as much as we may dislike it, people will continue to fall to their death in the near future, as gravity and its associated risks are natural.

I believe Paul means that these economic properties are to be expected because they arise naturally and it is not practical to eliminate them.

Re:The Refragmentation by erikpukinskis on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:45PM (#10829090)
It's a useless way of thinking because many things seem natural until they're proven not to be. We though being tied to terrestrial transportation was natural for a very long time, but it turns out there's no natural law preventing human bodies from taking flight after all.