What are the potential dangers of basing laws on naturalistic arguments?

Certain scholars wish to acquit St. Thomas Aquinas of the “illicit inference from facts to norms” commonly referred to as the naturalistic fallacy. Seeing in ... “I have no intention to commit what is often called the genetic or naturalistic fallacy,”. F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, p. 27. In his paper titled “Did Hayek ... This view I propose to call the “naturalistic fallacy.” ( Moore, 1978, p. 10). According to Moore, it is fallacious to define goodness in terms of natural ... Abstract: According to the conventional interpretation of Hume's celebrated passage in the Treatise on “is” and “ought”, no set of nonmoral premises, ... A naturalistic fallacy is an argument that concludes that because an outcome or action is influenced by nature, then it must be good. One example of a ... Many 'natural' things are also considered 'good', and this can bias our thinking; but naturalness itself doesn't make something good or bad. For instance murder ... The Naturalistic Fallacy rules out any attempt to treat morality as defined according to some pre-existent reality. NATURALISTIC FALLACY definition: the supposed fallacy of inferring evaluative conclusions from purely factual premises | Meaning, pronunciation, ... “Natural Is Better”: How the Appeal To Nature Fallacy Derails Public Health. By Sofia Deleniv, Dan Ariely, and Kelly Peters. March 8, 2021. Abstract. The naturalistic fallacy appears to be ubiquitous and irresistible. The avant-garde and the rearguard, the devout and the secular, the learned elite ...