Why is it impossible to cheat Nature?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readMar 22, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Why can’t we cheat on nature?”

We can’t cheat on nature because nature is not like a human judge, a politician or a dictator.

Nature is based on, operates by unchanging, strict, unforgiving laws. We either keep those laws or we break them and then suffer the consequences.

Let’s say one decides that the law of gravity is a fluke and one can survive jumping off the top of a high building without protective equipment. Then the person gets seriously injured or dies.

Who punished who?

Nature is a fully integrated and interdependent living system. Its laws sustain, govern a fragile, dynamic balance, homeostasis life and optimal development depend on.

If we learn these laws and rebuild human society accordingly, we will start to solve our mounting global problems and will prevent new ones, and we will survive, prosper in nature, consciously partnering evolution. This conscious adaptation, this conscious partnership is our potential, very high, evolutionary role in nature’s system.

If we continue stubbornly going against nature’s laws of mutual integration, if we keep blindly following our “unnatural”, egocentric, subjective egos, we will sink ever deeper into crisis until we “fall out of evolution”.

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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.