[extropy-chat] Re: The Vatican on Schiavo

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
> From the Vatican's newspaper, on Terri Schavo:
> "la Chiesa cattolica condanna in modo assoluto perché viola il valore
> fondamentale della vita umana della persona che nasce con noi e
> appartiene alla stessa natura di esseri umani viventi. Nessuno può
> arrogarsi il diritto della morte di una persona innocente"
> Translated: "The Chatolic Church absolutely condemns this [switching
> off life support equipment], as it is against the fundamental value of
> the human life of a person who is born with us and belongs to the same
> kind of living human beings. Nobody can assume the right to put an
> innocent persons to death".
> Question to the Catholic Church: How many innocent persons have you
> put to death with the inquisition?

Logical fallacy: Argumentum ad hominem tu quoque.
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem-tu-quoque.html

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence