RE: Trophy Hunting Good?!
November 19, 2017 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2017 at 10:09 am by Aroura.)
(November 19, 2017 at 9:43 am)Tizheruk Wrote:(November 19, 2017 at 9:13 am)Aroura Wrote: You cannot assert that this argument is faulty because past arguments were faulty. That's a blatant logical fallacy.But that's not what i was doing . I was pointing out that like all those other topics benny expresses the same faults. Second the person is relevant if just as with those the arguments fit the same pattern of faults which is what i was pointing out .
Address the argument being made, not the person presenting it or their history in other, non-related arguments.
If you had listed the faults in the argument, or mentioned how the arguments were similarly faulty, they sure. But you didn't.
You literally responded to someone else saying he did something he didn't even do. You responded to a strawman someone else posted about that argument.
Respond to the argument itself. Show me the flaw(s). I'm all ears.
(November 19, 2017 at 9:50 am)Khemikal Wrote: Here's a fun question, and it elaborates on my skepticism on necessity as a uniform moral modifier. Suppose there was some necessity in hunting NPP Rhinos to extinction. Would that reverse our moral appraisal?
A necessary evil is still...well....evil...right?
Well, I personally don't think things are good or evil, moral or immoral 100%. It's not a black and white world. Everything, pretty much everything, exists on a sliding scale, and changes depending on perspective.
If I was one of the last NPP Rhinos, that seems like a pretty evil act. But it would depend on the situation (here's the subjectivity part). Here we may have to chose the lesser of 2 evils.
This is much like, was shooting Harambe evil? It certainly caused harm, and possibly it was even unnecessary. But the risk that it might be necessary, that there might be more harm caused to a human child, outweighed our moral obligations to not harm the gorilla.
So, when you want us to imagine it is necessary, I would ask, in what way? And if it saves one life to end an entire species, then that is probably at least partly immoral, but also necessary to save that one life.
So on this sliding scale, we have to weigh, how necessary are factory farmed chickens? How necessary are trophy hunted animals? does ANY good come from either evil? Does that good somewhat balance the evil?
These are all hard questions, and just labeling anything as objectively right or wrong is a cop out of thinking about the situation in as much context as we can.
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