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The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation
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The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation
I was just making dinner and thinking about masturbation (because, you know, why not?) and got to thinking about the standard defense rolled out of "it's perfectly natural to masturbate, it's a normal human act of exploring your own sexuality and yadda yadda yadda..." and got to wondering whether this falls prey to the naturalistic fallacy.

It's okay to masturbate because it's natural.

Thoughts? Does this qualify as a fallacious argument or not?

(full disclosure, I haven't given this a huge deal of thought. In fact, I'm still making dinner.)Tongue
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by Clueless Morgan - October 29, 2014 at 10:35 pm
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by Jenny A - October 29, 2014 at 10:45 pm
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by Chad32 - October 29, 2014 at 10:46 pm
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by Alex K - October 30, 2014 at 2:53 am
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by bennyboy - October 30, 2014 at 12:22 am
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by Exian - October 30, 2014 at 2:33 am
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by pocaracas - October 30, 2014 at 6:46 am
RE: The naturalistic fallacy and masturbation - by vorlon13 - October 30, 2014 at 8:19 pm

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