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As you start to list properties that the animal lacks to justify eating them, you begin to realize that some humans also lack those properties, yet we don’t eat those humans. Is this logical proof that killing and eating animals for food is immoral? Don’t put away your steak knife just yet.
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I am not sure if there are any fallacies here. First, let's forget about the white saviors/allies and focus on Black people. The argument is essentially this: In past generations, Black people have been experimented on by the medical community and they continue to be treated unfairly to this day by the medical community. Therefore, it is reasonable for Black people to be skeptical of COVID vaccines. This isn't an experiment where Black people are singled out; in fact, COVID vaccines are going overwhelmingly to white populations because of inequity in healthcare. There are not special COVID vaccines for black people and white people. Given this reason at the very least, Black people have no rational basis to be any more skeptical of COVID vaccines than any other race. Here is a good read/list related to this: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/20/948614857/race-and-the-roots-of-vaccine-skepticism But sympathy is not about rationality. Trust/mistrust is largely arational. It is mostly an emotionally-based process that can override one's cognitive faculties. This means a level of sympathy can be extended to the Black community just like we can be sympathetic to anti-vaxxers (of any color) who lost a loved one to a rare vaccine side-effect. While I think Molly's reasoning is flawed as to why she has sympathy for Black anti-vaxxers, I don't think the sympathy itself is unwarranted. |
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answered on Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 03:07:54 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |||||||||||||
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Seems like its more of a bias to me that creates a double standard or a special pleading. Just because its understandable to her doesn't make their anti vaxx claims anymore true/false or any less harmful. This exchange begins with a personal attack against one group, and the question is why doesn't a different group get the same attack? The answer turns out to be an appeal to emotion created by a bias that creates a special pleading fallacy. |
answered on Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 03:11:32 PM by Jason Mathias | |
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