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    It is not the case that Hume argued in 'Of Suicide' that redirecting rivers and altering nature are not impious, so disturbing natural causation is not inherently wrong.

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    • 1.Hume's argument about rivers concerns utility and property rights, not whether disrupting causation is always permissible.
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    • 2.Some natural disruptions (suicide, ecological collapse) may be wrong for reasons independent of whether they violate nature itself.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'acceptable' from 'unacceptable' disruptions still requires moral criteria beyond just 'not impious.'
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    • 1.Hume distinguishes between violating divine will and merely redirecting natural forces, making the latter morally neutral.
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    • 2.Human agency exercised through natural laws (engineering rivers) differs morally from violating natural law itself.
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    • 3.If altering nature were inherently impious, all human survival activities (farming, building) would be forbidden.
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