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Originally Posted by jwb
No because the naturalistic fallacy is saying something is morally good because it's natural. He's not saying that. He's saying that its not just an arbitrary social convention, that it emerges in nature in quite primitive forms of life based on basic utility.
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If that's the definition of a naturalistic fallacy then sure, but like Bat said it seems like he's implying that that means hierarchies tend to be useful to us, or that they're more or less inevitable, and that is at least adjacent to a naturalistic fallacy. I see how it's being misunderstood though.