Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 081 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Natural Law Meets the Gap
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The idea
The standing objection to natural law: from what nature does, nothing follows about what agents ought to do — natural is not a moral verdict.
In practice
Diseases are natural; vaccines interfere with nature's course. Anyone unwilling to call vaccines wrong already grades nature by a further standard.
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