SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoJustifying one thing because it's a necessary component of another unnecessary thing... what logical fallacy is that?message-squaremessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down13
arrow-up143arrow-down1message-squareJustifying one thing because it's a necessary component of another unnecessary thing... what logical fallacy is that?SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square125fedilink
minus-squareSeahorseTreble@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoHow is that relevant? In the fallacy I’m describing, people assume that the cruel practices involved in dairy farming are necessary while ignoring the fact that dairy farming itself is unnecessary (since it can theoretically be eliminated).
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year ago your attempts to defend dairy farming and to argue that causing needless suffering to animals isn’t cruel or unethical. i’m saying that your bar for necessity is not objective. it’s subjective.
How is that relevant? In the fallacy I’m describing, people assume that the cruel practices involved in dairy farming are necessary while ignoring the fact that dairy farming itself is unnecessary (since it can theoretically be eliminated).
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i’m saying that your bar for necessity is not objective. it’s subjective.
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