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


"Derek" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:29:29 GMT, "rick" > wrote:
>>"Derek" > wrote in message
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>>> 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.

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LOL The problem for you is that you cannot accept the fact that
you kill animals for nothing more than your convenience and
entertainment. There is no meaning to your veganism, killer.