"Derek" > wrote
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:46:43 GMT, Jonathan Ball >
wrote:

> >>>>1) If I eat meat, I cause harm to animals
> >>>>2) I do not eat meat;
> >>>>Therefore,
> >>>>3)I do not cause harm to animals.
> >>>>
> >>>>It has two premisses and a conclusion. It's also commits
> >>>>a fallacy, since the second premiss denies the antecedent
> >>>>in the first premiss.
> >>>
> >>>It certainly does! ALL "vegans" commit this fallacy,
> >>>including you.
> >>
> >> Ipse dixit and false.
> >
> >No, well established, documented and true.
>
> The two examples you brought here aren't in any way
> representative of ALL vegans

The universal vegan core belief is that it's wrong to eat meat or consume
other animal products, and the fatuous reasoning given is that it's wrong
because
those things involve the killing of animals. It is this universal core
belief that embodies the fallacy of denying the antecedent.