(December 2, 2011 at 6:03 am)Tiberius Wrote: How was that an argument of authority? You really need to brush up on your fallacies. An argument of authority holds that X is true because authority Y says so. I never said such a thing; I simply shared the origin of my belief.
I see that you didn't bother responding to any of my actual points though.
I understand. You have to grasp for straws. Your view on this is sitting on shakey foundations, and therefore needs LOTS of bullshit to be thrown out, especially in the face of the consequences the world would suffer if your belief in this topic were to be legislated.
..and of course you never said "this is my argument from authority". but, as always, your words have meaning and consequences. As far as your argument from authority, are you telling me that you in no way held Christopher Hitchens up as and authority on the subject by saying: "I understand your position though; I used to be like you, supporting abortion to the same degree. I was persuaded to think otherwise by a man you've probably heard of, Christopher Hitchens" .."I've probably heard of" Good god man, this entire group of sentences is just SCREAMING 'argument fro authority' to everyone who reads it.
Yes, no matter how much you back peddle, no matter how much you toss hundreds of words out, the fact of the matter is that you held up Hitchens as an authority (that obviously changed your mind) and that I should take his word for it by saying "I used to be like you".
Hitchens is NOt an expert on abortion, which makes your authority argument even weaker.
..meanwhile the actual experts in the field tend to disagree with you and Hitchens stance on abortion, which makes your argument from authority even less convincing.
Now, I expect you to ramble on and on and on, but nothing you say will change the fact that you are willing to force a woman to carry to term a baby she does not want to carry to term.
that makes you greivously authoritarian in your socio political views compared to me. Willing to censor a womans choice because of some not so well thought out "rights of the fetus" concept
Damn dude...thats low.
