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- A bird requires food to survive. One can tie down a bird's wings and feed it and enable it to survive; but for it to not only live, but to live **as a bird** (i.e, holistically), it must be able to exercise the characteristic capabilities which are bestowed on it by the nature of its species. Until the bird is able to embrace the holistic total of its characteristic nature such as flight, it is living as something less than a bird.
- Likewise a human requires food to survive. One can impound humans, nourish them and thereby enable them to survive; but for humans not only to live, but to live **as humans**, they must be allowed to exercise the characteristically human capabilities which humankind possesses by the nature of our species. Until an individual is able to embrace the holistic total of its nature as a rational creature and make full use of its rational faculty, it is living as something **less than** a human.
Note also that the pursuit of life allows and disallows a an identifiable, definite set of behaviours -- ingesting food nourishes while poison kills. Chocolate nourishes a human while it harms a dog. A moral code is an objective descriptions of the definite actions which promote or destroy the life of that species.
Note also that the pursuit of life allows and disallows a definite set of behaviours -- ingesting food nourishes while poison kills. Chocolate nourishes a human while it harms a dog. A moral code is an objective descriptions of the definite actions which promote or destroy the life of that species.
Morality consists of a code of behaviour to enable a species to live successfully as **what it is**. Notice that morality does not reference life in a social context -- morality pertains to the code of behaviour which a creature must follow in order to live successfully irrespective of its proximity to other creatures. In fact, a creature's observance of the moral code that sustains its life is **most crucial** when it has no assistance on hand. When there is no physician to heal you, your adherence to an objectively defined moral code becomes even more essential.