naturalistic fallacy

The naturalistic fallacy is the logical mistake of deriving what should be from what is. In other words, it assumes that natural states or facts about the world automatically imply moral values or ethical norms. For example, just because something occurs in nature (like competition or survival of the fittest), it doesn’t mean it is morally right or desirable to mimic human behavior after it. This fallacy highlights the difference between describing how things are and prescribing how things ought to be. In ethics, it's crucial to separate factual observations from moral judgments.