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    It is not the case that The biotic community as a whole, not its individual members, is the sole locus of intrinsic value

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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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    • 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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