[extropy-chat] Re: The Vatican on Schiavo

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

No logical fallacy. I am not refuting a logical proposition but an
attempt to seize a moral high ground. Different rules apply.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:10:01 -0800, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
<sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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
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