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    It is not the case that All natural things, events, and states of affairs possess intrinsic value

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    • 1.Intrinsic value requires a valuing subject or capacity for welfare; value cannot be mind-independently instantiated in non-sentient nature.
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    • 2.Natural things, events, and states of affairs include smallpox, earthquakes, and cancer, which lack any plausible welfare-grounding for intrinsic value.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The property of 'naturalness' cannot confer value without smuggling in a normative premise, committing the naturalistic fallacy Moore identified.
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    • 2.Deriving intrinsic value from the descriptive fact of being natural illicitly moves from an 'is' to an 'ought', violating Hume's guillotine.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Naturalness is itself a property that confers intrinsic value
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    • 2.All natural things, events, and states of affairs possess the property of naturalness
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