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Derek
 
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Default The collateral deaths argument and the 'Perfect Solution Fallacy": a false dilemma.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:29:29 GMT, "rick" > wrote:
>"Derek" > wrote in message ...
>> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:32:52 GMT, "Dutch" > wrote:
>>>"Derek" > wrote
>>>>
>>>> The Perfect Solution Fallacy.
>>>> The perfect solution fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs
>>>> when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists
>>>> and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part
>>>> of the problem would still exist after it was implemented.
>>>> Presumably, assuming no solution is perfect then no solution
>>>> would last very long politically once it had been implemented.
>>>> Still, many people (notably utopians) seem to find the idea of
>>>> a perfect solution compelling, perhaps because it is easy to
>>>> imagine.
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_solution_fallacy
>>>>
>>>> Read it and find that you've been wasting your time on the
>>>> collateral deaths issue for years, I'm glad to say.
>>>
>>>Har har

>>
>> There's no getting away from it; the collateral deaths argument
>> against veganism is a fallacy.

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>ROTFLMAO What a hoot!


Get used to it, Etter, however hard it must be for someone like
you to accept. You have no choice but to accept the fact that
the collateral deaths argument is specious in that it poses a
false dilemma.