ruveyn wrote:
PTSmorrow wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
PTSmorrow wrote:
I'd like to live someplace where no humans exist. All nature and animals.
How do you expect to survive.
Humans do as well as they do because they live in communities and a wide mix of talents and skills can be brought into use.
ruveyn
Provided there's access to clean water, edible plants and a few simple tools, one can survive on his own.
Provided no serious accident befalls you. If you break a bone or get an infection you are most likely a goner. No doctors or
anti-biottics to help you. And if one of the wilder animals in the place you are in attacks you you are in deep sh*t. The reason why humans do as well as the do is precisely because they DO NOT live along. They live in communities where the labor can be specialized and mutual defense can be provided.
The idea of the successful hermit is strictly for fiction. Even Robinson Crusoe needed Friday's help.
ruveyn
I see your point, but that's only half the story because on the other hand, in my kind of universe I can't be killed by a drunk driver, a shooting, murder, a doctor's malpractice, or any other kind of human--caused deaths.
Sooner or later I have to die anyway, and if I could choose I would prefer to die surrounded by nature, not in a hospital.
Not sure about Friday. Robinson could have gotten well again by himself. And Friday's appearance was necessary for the plot.
I seriously doubt that humans do well, as you put it. After all, they destroy the planet, so what's the point? Furthermore, if I had to choose between one year of freedom in nature without humans and then years of artificial life support in a nursing home, I'd of course choose the former.
Finally, I don't care about the human species. They are like an anthill out of control.