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    If culling a white-tailed deer is necessary for the prote... — Carmelics
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    If culling a white-tailed deer is necessary for the protection of the holistic biotic good, then culling that deer is a land-ethical requirement

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    • 1.Individual members of the biotic community ought to be sacrificed when needed for the holistic good of the community
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    • 2.A white-tailed deer is an individual member of the biotic community
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    • 1.Moral obligations cannot be derived solely from ecological function, as 'is' (ecological necessity) does not entail 'ought' (ethical requirement).
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    • 2.Leopold's land ethic describes tendencies of ecologically informed conscience, not algorithmic obligations that override all competing moral considerations.
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    • 3.Tom Regan's rights-based critique holds that subjects-of-a-life possess inherent value that cannot be overridden by aggregative community goods.
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    • 1.The 'holistic biotic good' is not a determinate, observer-independent fact but a contested normative framing that presupposes contested ecological baselines.
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    • 2.If the criterion for culling is itself normatively loaded, then the land-ethical requirement is circular and cannot serve as an independent moral justification.
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    Criticizing the individualistic approach in general for failing to accommodate conservation concerns for ecological wholes, J. Baird Callicott (1980) once advocated a version of land-ethical holism which takes Leopold’s statement “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise” to be the supreme deontological principle. In this theory, the earth’s biotic community per se is the sole locus of intrinsic v
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