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"If the common good justifies killing X agent, then it must be ok for a doctor to kill a patient in their sleep, take his organs and save three people with his
by iamdave 13y ago
"If the common good justifies killing X agent, then it must be ok for a doctor to kill a patient in their sleep, take his organs and save three people with his two kidneys and heart."
Isn't that a variation of a semantic shift fallacy? [1]
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
- vanattab 13y agoI just read the link and I am not following your reasoning. Please explain.
- wfn 13y agoJust an FYI: that wiki link does not seem to lead to an article about the fallacy in question, or any kind of fallacy for that matter. You might have been thinking about the continuum fallacy[1], false equivocation, straw man, or red herring. In any regard, I agree that the reasoning in question falls within the bounds of one or other informal fallacies[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy