Much is made of a need to reconnect with violated nature.
It's conclusion, thus, is not that we should flaunt or violate nature, but that we simply cannot flaunt it.
When we close our hearts to animal sentience, we ignore and violate nature.
Losing a child, regardless of age, violates nature's generational plan and tears at one of the most visceral forms of human attachment.
By contrast, Locke argued against absolute monarchy by contending that no existing political constitution is legitimate or just unless it could be contracted into starting from a position of equal right within a (relatively peaceful) state of nature, and without violating any natural rights or duties.
Human beings are part of nature, he stressed, and the allocation of resources at the present moment violates that nature: "It is intolerable that millions of people around the world are dying of hunger while tons of food are discarded each day from our tables".
Yang Zhu, on the other hand, advocated the primacy of the self and the nourishment (yang) of one's nature (xing) rather than investing one's time and energy in social concerns and institutions that (Yang suggested) violated that nature.
Because the technologists of biomedicine take so narrow a view of their subject matter, they propose remedies that will ultimately violate human nature, he fears, however attractive they may seem to some in the short term.
As hard as they are to rationally reconstruct, it is important to listen to concerns that some form of biomedicine violates human nature, even in public discussions of policy within a pluralistic society.
"Unfortunately it's the dynamic of being Britney Spears the star that violates the nature of Britney Spears the person".
