(September 30, 2014 at 9:19 am)Rogue Wrote: That's because my bodyguard is a human not a deity.
A scientist got so depressed because he proved with math that altruism does not exist. He used evolution for the math. I bet there would be a different outcome in that equation if he had put spirit in there. He was a wealthy man and he gave all he had to help the homeless. They robbed him and left him with nothing. He found some reason that his actions were not altruistic and killed himself. I think he believed that his actions were for his family, his son that left him. It was because of evolution that he proved altruism could not exist. I don't know I think altruism can be accomplished but you have to be HUMAN.
True story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price
So, the appeal to consequences is a logical fallacy wherein the interlocutor claims that a given proposition cannot be true because the consequences of it being so would be unsavory, literally: "X cannot be true, because it would be bad if X were true." Of course, the purported negative consequences of a claim have no bearing at all on its truthfulness; the universe does not owe us positive outcomes in all things, after all. Hence, this argument has no power at all.
Evolution is a real phenomenon whether you like it or not, and quivering in your boots over what you perceive to be uncomfortable consequences- by the way, you've terribly misinterpreted Price's conclusions, but that's just another layer on this particular failure cake of yours- will not alter that fact. And it is a fact.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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