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    The biotic community as a whole, not its individual membe... — Carmelics
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    The biotic community as a whole, not its individual members, is the sole locus of intrinsic value

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    • 1.Leopold's principle holds that a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community
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    • 2.Individual members of the biotic community derive value only from their contribution to the integrity, stability, and beauty of the larger community
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    • 1.Sentient individuals possess interests in avoiding suffering that exist independently of any community membership or ecological function.
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    • 2.A moral framework that permits individual suffering whenever it serves community stability collapses into what Regan calls 'environmental fascism'.
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    • 3.Intrinsic value cannot coherently attach only to abstractions like communities while denying it to the concrete subjects who constitute them.
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    • 1.Rolston's graded value hierarchy acknowledges that organisms with greater complexity and sentience possess stronger intrinsic value claims than the systems they inhabit.
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    • 2.Leopold's land ethic conflates two distinct claims: that communities have moral standing and that communities are the sole locus of intrinsic value.
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    The biotic community per se is the sole locus of intrinsic value

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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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