Outline one criticism of Natural Moral law.

Natural Moral Law despite it's stregnths has been critiqued for commiting the 'naturalistic fallacy'. This is a logical fallacy explained by Hume in his famous fork analog. It argues a person has turned an 'is' factor into an 'ought' factor. Natural Moral Law commits this fallacy, as it states that as other animals reproduce and we have always worshiped God (an 'is' reality) that all human ought to reproduce and worship God. The proplem with this fallacy as it means that the argument is not grounded in strong logics it can easily be countered any argument that observes destructive behaviour in nature, for example animals kill each other for territory (is factor), that means it is moral for humans to kill other humans for territory (an ought factor). Natural Moral Law's central principles can be undermined by the fact they do not give a precise reason for why nature is moral and why we should have an ethical theory based upon it. 

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