Antinaturalism (politics)
Antinaturalism is a political movement in France closely linked to the animal rights movement.Philosophy
It has been argued by some antinaturalists, that naturalist ideology "goes hand in hand with and legitimises speciesist oppression of non-human sentient beings" and that using natural law to justify the reintroduction of predatory animals is a form of speciesism.
Antinaturalists defend the inherent and absolute moral permissibility of abortion, body modification, divorce, contraception, sex reassignment surgery and other means by which they believe human beings can assume control of their own bodies and their own environments. Antinaturalism stands in contrast to some radical environmentalist movements, which state that nature itself is sacred and should be preserved for its own sake, instead advancing the idea that all human acts are natural and that ecological preservation is important inasmuch as it is necessary for the well-being of sentient beings, not because of some inherently sacred attribute of nature as a whole.
