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This is not a "naturalistic fallacy" (more properly called an appeal to nature), because PG uses "natural" in the very narrow sense of "evolutionarily optimal". PG must have thought his target audience is discerning enough to dereference such things without any hand-holding.


Hm, "appeal to nature" does seem to fit the bill better, as "naturalistic fallacy" means something slightly different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

It seems funny that I trust wikipedia+random guy on the internet over my economics professors.




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