(August 17, 2015 at 8:47 am)Drich Wrote: Either way your identification of a fallacy in my work is still wrong. I gave no such argument that concludes a hypothesis. I stated a fact. We all currently benefit from modern day slavery. If we say all slavery is wrong we are in trouble. Meaning we are hypocrits. By 'we all' I am acourse referring to the people who say all slavery is wrong.
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Sure, I can accept that you didn't state your opinion on whether slavery is or isn't wrong. I misread that, for which I apologize. But you have to understand that these days starting a statement with "IF all slavery is wrong..." usually implies skepticism towards a widely accepted moral principle that all slavery is indeed wrong.
Now - I'm not sure what you mean by "modern day slavery", but I'm pretty sure my definition differs.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
