Stability has intrinsic value but not instrumental value. This is mainly shown in the reading called, “Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability, Defending Wildness,” by Ned Hettinger and Bill Throop. In the reading, Hettinger and Throop discuss many things concerning stability and how it relates on an intrinsic level. However, they argue that ecocentric ethics need to shift the importance from stable integrity to other intrinsically valuable features of natural systems. Stability is not instrumental rather it is intrinsic because nature makes it self-stable by various natural occurrences. For example, if a factor is introduced in a habitat that it doesn’t belong to nature will either accept it or reject it. Either result making the
