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I consider unnatural desires to be desires for things which do not exist, because everything in nature, whatever has existence, is natural. Desire for unlimited power, idealistic freedom, absolute beauty, immortality, omniscience -- these are desires for the unreal which cannot ever be satisfied. Since everything real is by definition natural, I am only left with deciding whether my decision to pursue a desire will likely lead to more pleasure than pain, or not. If desire for a particular item o…

And really, if you try to define "natural" in any other way besides some relationship to "real", then what is natural cannot be applied to all of us. If something is real, it has existence independently of us-- if the unnatural is the unreal, it's unreal for everyone. Nobody can have omniscience, for instance. If you make natural something an organism is innately disposed to want, then natural will vary between organisms, because no two are identical. Even clones are affected by epigenetics/envi…