RE: Loving and forgiving your enemies
December 12, 2015 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 10:43 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(December 12, 2015 at 10:37 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:(December 12, 2015 at 10:33 am)Evie Wrote: I'm not dismissing you by telling you that you're asking for someone tho choose two options when those options wouldn't be the only two options.
Sure you can define the thought experiment in such a way so that no other options exist, but that's a very unhelpful and unrealistic thought experiment. In a real situation the only options wouldn't be "stab the person to death" or "turn the other cheek".
Yes, they would be the only two options since the scenario I described could only include those two options. How is that so hard to understand?
No the scenario could involve other options because it's a false dichotomy. It's only a true dichotomy if within the scenario you describe you say something like "No other options are allowed in this scenario", and how is that helpful?
It's like saying "There are 3 bowls of soup, one is super hot and will burn your tongue, one is super cold and will freeze your tongue, and the other one is perfect temperature. Which one would you pick? Oh! By the way you're not allowed to pick the one with perfect temperature."
