>>2295207Philosophically speaking, a wild animal is an creature that lacks free will (as defined by rationality) and obeys the laws of nature (his nature, not the green stuff), and as such, he is in fact a slave to his desires and primal instincts.
Being such, humans who are liberal in mind and "free" to choose the urban lifestyle of constant gratification and sodomy etc. are in fact living like animals.
So, if you choose to live in the wild, around animals, you must be seriously disciplined and live with rationality and adjust your life to nature (the green stuff) around you.
This is the sense that Seneca means in his fifth letter to Lucilius “Our motto, as you know, is ‘Live according to Nature;’ but it is quite contrary to nature to torture the body, to hate unlaboured elegance, to be dirty on purpose, to eat food that is not only plain, but disgusting and forbidding.”
Seneca is directing our choices to align with our physical requirements. By ‘live according to nature’, Seneca seems to be instructing to reach for the things which ‘Nature’ has designed humans to desire. These things include health, safety, community, and other such things.
The community part you can obviously discard, since I think you are into Asceticism, which is fine, but the rest you must consider how to make the right choice.
