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Original Question

1. A person killed a child because he was screaming.


2. The person has anger issues and you can't control anything when you are angry.


3. Therefore, killing that child is not immoral


 

Answers

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A good argument connects the dots between premises. This does not. Let's connect those dots...


1. Person X killed a child because the child was screaming.
2. Person X has anger issues and they can't control anything when they are angry.
3. Killing someone when it is out of one's control is not immoral.
4. Therefore, person X killing that child is not immoral.


I see no fallacy with the way I have written this. Of course, each premise is debatable and any premise that is rejected would result the in the conclusion to be rejected. As for the weak analogy, I don't even see an analogy here.

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