The Nature of Things (Cody)

11/7/2025

Some people think that interfering with nature is bad and we shouldn’t do it. This is either helping a sick wild animal or mabye even hunting. In your opinion, do you think it is justified to help out an animal that is hurt or stuck, and if you think it is or not why?

In my opinion, i think that this question can be answered in very many different ways. I’m gonna say that you are justified in helping an animal that is stuck. For example, say you see a deer stuck in a fence and a bear coming. I would get the deer and let it out because the fence was not apart of nature, it’s manmade. Now where i have speculations is when an animal is stuck in nature or mother nature has put those animals into a position where they can die. I have these speculations because did mother nature do that to them to kill them, or did mother nature do that and purposely made you see the situation so you could help?

8 Comments

Lucile Turner

11/9/2025 07:20:58 pm

Like you mentioned, this could easily go both ways. On one hand, I don't believe that it is our place to interfere with nature. Too much of this could lead to unbalanced ecosystems. However on the other hand, some situations seem cruel to abandon a struggling animal. My personal opinion is to be smart when making contact with animals. If a deer or wild bird is stuck between something, or an animal is drowning somewhere, as long as it doesn't put an individuals life at risk, I think a person should do their best to save or assist the struggling animal. However if it is a "circle of life" situation, where a predator is targeting its prey, this is when both animals should be left alone. While it may be sad seeing the prey die a pretty brutal death, it is all a part of life, and is crucial for all living things to continue surviving.

Killian Smith

11/9/2025 08:15:56 pm

The given situation of the trapped or injured animal while it is good in the sense of intervention or to intervene or not intervene. It does not fully encapsulate what intervening in nature means to a lot of people. The notion of the circle of life is also an interesting thing to bring up and to that what about the fact that humans are also part of the circle of life the only thing that really sets us apart is a greater empathy and feeling that would make us save that animal, is that not part of the circle of life?

Miles

11/9/2025 08:25:49 pm

I agree with being smart about natural intervention: I have rescued a few birds in my lifetime; one was an endangered species in Mexico.

Alyssa Tracy

11/9/2025 07:53:18 pm

I do agree with it going both ways. Especially for sickness, I think we should help if we find a sick animal-we came across it instead of never crossing paths type thing. I think interfering with nature only counts if the paths of the animals and humans happen, by chance preferably. By putting ourselves more into nature's plan deducts the entire purpose of itself. It should only be by accident and nor forceful.

Killian Smith

11/9/2025 08:20:36 pm

You mentioning the happening across a stuck or injured animal as justification for being able to help it. Nature, conservatory and other corporations like them that go out to find animals that are injured that need help maybe does mess with an ecological system. Though I’m imagining talking to the people in charge of those corporations and I don’t see the conversation of them needing to stop searching out injured animals going well.

Killian Smith

11/9/2025 08:06:02 pm

Given the current state of the world intervention with nature is just a given, everyone does it every single day. So when asked if interfering with nature is correct or right it depends in which way, to me helping an injured animal or feeding a starving animal is fully justified as is hunting for food or plowing lands to grow crops. On the other side of things, industrialized interference with nature is drastically changing the environment for the worse. However, these commercial operations are needed to feed the growing population so it’s less of a question of right or wrong and more of a question of” how sustainably can we do it?”

Miles

11/9/2025 08:23:43 pm

It seems like the word "interference" is ambiguous within this topic. Yes, we interfere with animals every day; whether it is a good or bad interference is another question.

Miles

11/9/2025 08:18:02 pm

I believe that one should assist a wild animal if they are able to do so without suffering any negative consequences. Animals, such as cats, dogs, and humans, constantly assist one another and form symbiotic relationships. Why are we unable to engage with and form bonds with those other animals? When a BBC crew filming penguins in Antarctica discovered a flock trapped at the bottom of an icy ravine with no way out, the group made the decision to break the "no interference" rule and build a staircase out of so the penguins could get out of the icy death trap after witnessing some of them perish.

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