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    Challenges→An individual member of the biotic community ought to be sacrificed when doing so is necessary to protect the holistic good of the biotic community

    A moral framework that treats individuals as purely instrumental to collective ends is structurally indistinguishable from the logic that justifies totalitarian sacrifice of persons for the state.

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    Instrumental(philosophy of law)
    Serving as a tool or means to achieve something else, rather than being valuable in itself.
    Sacrifice of persons for the state(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    The practice of treating individual people as expendable in order to benefit or preserve the government and its power.
    Totalitarian(as used in political philosophy)
    A system of government that demands total control over all aspects of people's lives and allows no individual freedom or opposition.
    collective ends(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    Goals or purposes that benefit a group or community as a whole, rather than just individuals.
    moral framework(in ethics)

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    So similar in shape or pattern that you cannot tell them apart by looking at their structure alone.

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