For the ethical argument that it is fallacious to define 'good' in terms of natural properties, see Naturalistic fallacy.
An appeal to nature is a rhetorical technique for presenting and proposing the argument that "a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because it is 'unnatural'."[1] In debate and discussion, an appeal-to-nature argument can considered to be a bad argument, because the implicit primary premise "What is natural is good" has no factual meaning beyond rhetoric in some or most contexts.
^Edward Moore, George (1922). Principia Ethica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 45.
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