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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.
In Eat Meat… Or Don’t, we examine the moral arguments for and against eating meat with both philosophical and scientific rigor. This book is not about pushing some ideological agenda; it’s ultimately a book about critical thinking.
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First and foremost, statements like this can be signs of depression and a cry for help, so if this is someone close to you who said this, you should take it seriously. As far as fallacies, this is just a statement rather than an argument, so you should ask them to expand on what they mean by this, then we can look for fallacies. For example, "I never asked to be born. Therefore, my parents had no right to give me birth." This would be the Rights To Ought Fallacy , even though they would be legally (and arguably morally) wrong about the right. Or we can say that this logic poses a paradox of sorts that is at least absurd (argumentum ad absurdum): Only people to ask to be born should be born. This demonstrates their claim is absurd (assuming their position is "only people to ask to be born should be born.") |
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