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According to the naturalistic view, the flourishing of society is not, or not the only, intrinsically good thing.

Defenses of this notion are often formulated by reference to biology, and observations that living things compete more with their own kind than with other kinds.

Rather, what is of intrinsic good is the flourishing of all sentient life, extending to those animals that have some level of similar sentience, such as Great Ape personhood.

Others go farther, declaring that life itself is of intrinsic value.