RE: How humans are "slaves", and how that leads to the existence of God.
November 3, 2015 at 12:51 pm
(November 3, 2015 at 10:13 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Redbeard The Pink
Meeting the accusation of the special pleading, I view God as a special condition (sorry ; my major is computer science).
So no, I don't think special pleading applies to me here.
When I say "zero" is a special number, is that special pleading ?
No, the zero thing is not special pleading. For the most part, zero follows the same rules other numbers follow, and the few special rules regarding the number zero are adequately supported by good reasons.
Gaud, on the other hand, is a "special condition" for no other reason besides you and your book saying so (or "because he's Gaud," which is circular), which is why that is special pleading. You do not have adequate justification to treat Gaud as a special case against the premises you've laid out, and so your argument is a special pleading fallacy.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
