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Not only does my post appeal to emotion, it openly appeals to emotion. On the other hand, your post uses the appeal to middle ground fallacy. If your list of pr
by dandare 8y ago
Not only does my post appeal to emotion, it openly appeals to emotion. On the other hand, your post uses the appeal to middle ground fallacy. If your list of priorities starts with anything other than stopping the routine torture of children, then your grand scheme of things is probably evil.
- ttmb 8y agoThis is hardly the rational discussion you claimed to be starting.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoAny "speaking as a parent" argument is hardly likely to be rational.
- happytoexplain 8y agoWhy? What the parent post is saying makes sense to me, personally. Sometimes important and relevant factors in topic discussion are intrinsically emotional. That's not automatically a fallacy.
- decoyworker 8y agoWhat if a child torturer is helping you save other lives and end the war sooner thus saving innumerable lives? Do you see how torture is bad but there are other variables?
- dandare 8y agoYou sound like those US TV dramas where the main character is a kind cop put before a dilemma to either pouch an ugly terrorist once or twice on the nose or a school bus full of cute little children will be blown up by a bomb. Yeah, in theory, there are other variables. In practice, the chances are that if you turn a blind eye to the routine torture children you are simply an evil person.
- SantalBlush 8y agoThanks to the endless intellectualization by genuinely intelligent people, we can no longer call anything good or bad anymore. I guess no country has ever been guilty of crimes against humanity, since it's always "complicated".
- hajile 8y agoFighting evil with evil simply makes two monsters instead of one.