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Loaded Question Fallacy or valid questioning?Following a recent Interview with BBC Journalist Andrew Neil and US commentator Ben Shapiro which has gone viral and can be seen YouTube ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=6. . . part of their discourse is as follows:
Andrew Neil: {HiLi}Some of the ideas popular in your side of politics would seem to take us back to the dark ages. Such as the new abortion laws in Georgia that you are in favor of eg. that a woman who miscarries could get 30 years, and a Georgian woman who travels to another state for an abortion procedure could get 10 years. These are Extreme hard Policies.{/HiLi} Ben Shapiro: Are you an objective journalist or an opinion journalist? Andrew Neil: I am a journalist that asks questions. Anyway, it went on for a bit and then the following was asked by Andrew Neil : {HiLi}What I am asking you is why a bill barring abortion when a woman has just been pregnant for six weeks is not a return to the dark ages?{/HiLi} Ben Shapiro: My answer is Science; life begins at conception. Although there was no question mark with the first comment highlighted it sounded as if Andrew Neil was implying a question; I think this is what is known as rhetorical statement/question? And both with the comments highlighted, I am wondering if these are examples of loaded questions or perfectly valid? Thanks. |
asked on Monday, May 13, 2019 05:12:48 PM by Jack | |
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