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    Challenges→Further trade-offs of intrinsic value derived from naturalness for intrinsic value from other sources can no longer be justified

    A lexical priority rule favoring naturalness over all other intrinsic value sources requires justification beyond the mere fact of depletion, which the supporting arguments do not supply.

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    • 1.Lexical priority rules require principled justification, not empirical facts alone, to avoid arbitrary value hierarchies.
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    • 2.Depletion is a consequence of value choices, not itself a reason for those choices; confusing them commits a logical gap.
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    • 3.Without independent justification, naturalness could be prioritized merely because we've depleted other resources, inverting moral reasoning.
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    • 1.Depletion demonstrates naturalness as irreplaceable in ways other values are not, providing functional justification for priority.
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    • 2.Lexical rules need not precede empirical facts; scarcity itself constitutes rationally relevant justification for protective prioritization.
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    • 3.The claim demands justification 'beyond depletion' without explaining why empirical irreplaceability cannot suffice as justification.
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    Key Terms

    Depletion(as used in environmental ethics)
    The using up or running out of a resource, like when a forest is cut down or an oil reserve runs dry.
    Lexical priority rule(as used in ethics and value theory)
    A decision-making system where one thing always comes before everything else—like saying 'always do X first, and only consider other things after X is satisfied.'
    intrinsic value(Callicott (1980) in contrast to individualistic environmental ethics)
    Value possessed in and of itself, not derived from contribution to something else; in Callicott's holism, attributed exclusively to the biotic community as a whole rather than to individual organisms
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
    naturalness(Elliot's framework treats naturalness as an intrinsic-value-conferring property in its own right)
    A property possessed by natural things, events, and states of affairs in virtue of which they attain intrinsic value, independent of human design or purpose

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