Were we better off in a state of nature?

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...aren't we part of the nature in this "mother earth" of ours? I like to believe so.

i agree with this, however, it seems to me that a vast majority of our species does not think this way. Nature is often viewed as everything but us.. Which is probably why our "needs" are often placed above the environment. Since we are the most intelligent species on the planet and we have the ability to alter the original course of nature, we have a greater responsibility than the lion or the deer. As for the Amish, i don't believe we need to revert to an earlier version of ourselves or even forgo many luxuries, but we should take into account nature as a whole.