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Is this an argument of the beard fallacy?Here's a video of a guy criticizing pro-abortion arguments: {youtube title=} youtu.be/_ZnAneMJg5E{/you. . .
At the timestamps from 5:27 until 7:30, he engages in a thought experiment that seems like an argument of the beard fallacy. It's preferable to watch it but I will provide a brief of it anyway. Here it is in short: "Imagine yourself in your current form. Now go back in time to yesterday. Was that still you? Did you have value then? Now go back a year...Go back ten years....Go back to your first birthday...Now go back in time to the moment you emerged out of the womb. Now go back one second. Did you have value at that time? If not, fast-forward one second and tell me what happened in that second that gave you value? The truth is that you had value from the moment of your physical existence, and if you didn't have value then, you don't have value now." I can reasonably assume that what he means by the moment of physical existence is the moment of conception, and thus it seems like he's committing an argument of the beard fallacy because he's arguing that since there's no distinction between a baby when it emerges out of a womb and the baby a second before, then there's no distinction between the baby and its state when it was first conceived and it should have value in both cases. That's like me plucking a few hairs off the beard of the guy in the video and telling him that it is impossible for him to be beardless because each time I pluck one hair off his beard he still has beard. What do you think? |
asked on Monday, Jun 03, 2019 07:54:27 PM by Abdulazeez | |
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