[extropy-chat] Re: The Vatican on Schiavo

[Technotranscendence]

On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:10 AM Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
sentience at pobox.com 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

Agreed.

People don't seem to get that there's nothing logically invalid about
the pot calling the kettle black.  After all, the kettle may indeed be
black.:)

Cheers!

Dan
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