What is natural and unnatural in human beings?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readNov 30, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What are all the things that are natural and unnatural in all humans?”

We are unique and very complex creatures. We have an inherent nature that is both “natural” and “unnatural.”

By default, we are controlled and operated by a 100% self-serving, self-justifying, subjective, and individualistic ego that is instinctive and “natural” to us, but it is completely “unnatural” from the viewpoint of Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system.

As long as we blindly and instinctively follow our “natural” egos, we exist and behave like cancer, with excessive overconsumption and ruthless competition, surviving and succeeding at the expense of others and Nature.

We have another “side” to us that is totally “unnatural’ to the ego but “natural” from Nature’s point of view: we are capable of selfless, altruistic, and unconditional love and service of others through positive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing integration with each other.

This second, altruistic side is totally opposite and unacceptable to the egoistic side, and through millennia of human development, this altruistic side remained hidden and dormant while our ego dominated and still dominates everything.

Today — through multiple events and causes — we have received the chance to awaken this dormant, altruistic, mutually cooperating side and make it dominant over our egos. Our continuing human survival depends on this conscious development and choice.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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