(August 28, 2012 at 11:27 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Suppose I want to do unto others as follows...
I'm the parent of a child and I think every other child should (ought to) have the right to a gender-balanced upbringing by their biologically related, opposite gender, monogamous parents.
Therefore...
- I would not cheat on my wife because that would make my child sad.
- I would not avoid my obligations as the biological father of my child.
- I would not donate sperm (DNA) anonymously leaving children wondering where they came from.
- I would not suddenly discover I was gay, get divorced, start campaigning for gay marriage/adoption and impose 18 years of same-sex adoptive parenting on a child that I purchased on the internet from a surrogate mom.
Then don't do those things.
Quote:(August 28, 2012 at 11:11 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: It takes a special kind of person to actually use the name of a fallacy when committing said fallacy.
You said you can't see anything wrong with it.
I was laughing because that would mean there is no slippery slope - let alone a steep one going down in one direction from where we are now.
Going down to where? What's running through your imagination?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
