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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7478438" data-attributes="member: 6683613">While you rightly criticize  [MENTION=6966901]Mike R[/MENTION] for being unable to put down a particular philosophical lens when evaluating a fictional fantasy game, I have to muddy the waters a bit. The naturalism he is espousing has a very long pedigree in philosophy, with origins in Classical India and Greece. Both the Epicureans and the Stoics were naturalistic, making naturalism arguably the dominant view among thinkers in the West until Christianity changed the game. In contrast, this......is a quite modern perspective. Technology as separation from nature is not a theme you see a lot (at least in Western thought; the Taoists were sort of in the neighborhood of it) until the Industrial Revolution and the Romantic movement. In general, the understanding of technology as a thing, and the progression thereof, was historically slow to emerge.Yes, "cold iron" plays a prominent role in European folklore warding off fairies. But a nature-vs.-technology conflict does not satisfactorily explain why. Remember, too, that iron also supposedly wards off evil spirits, witches, bad luck, and so on.So it's a bit less obvious why this is the case than you seem to be claiming.</blockquote>