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    Challenges→Individual natural entities should not be treated as mere instruments and thus possess intrinsic value

    Rocks and viruses also lack designed purposes, yet attributing intrinsic value to all purposeless entities produces an implausibly inflated and action-guiding-inert moral ontology.

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    Action-guiding(as used in ethics)
    Capable of actually helping someone decide what to do in a real situation, rather than being purely theoretical.
    Designed purposes(as used in the statement)
    Goals or functions that something was specifically created or evolved to accomplish.
    Inert(as used in physics and philosophy of matter)
    Lacking the ability to move, act, or cause change on its own; completely passive and lifeless.
    Inflated(as used in ethics)
    Bloated or expanded beyond what seems reasonable; here it means the moral system includes too many things that shouldn't really matter.
    Moral ontology(as used in ethics)

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    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

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