(April 14, 2019 at 10:39 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I think I see the problem you're having, now.
That's not what an appeal to consequences means. An appeal to consequences is when some proposition is held to be true or false because it leads to (or away from) a desired (or undesired) conclusion.
So, for example:
"No one has answered my questions on the many ways that abortion can be morally justified - because then I'd just have stuck my foot in my mouth and refused to remove it for all these posts, and that would be embarrassing"
Whereas
"If you shoot that child in the chest, they will die" is a simple statement of fact. Just as the statements "I have a compelling moral obligation to abort this child", "The consequences of this childs birth would be be poor for all involved parties" and "The consequences of stigmatizing abortion, morally or legally, are worse than abortion" can be.
Moral good, imperative.
Final moral good, elective.
Avoidance.
If it's still escaping you, we'll take a look at it through the lens of your own statements.
Quote:The best we can do, assuming we aren't going to just allow ourselves to starve to death to spare vegetables, is to live a vegan lifestyle so that we ensure we do not contribute to the death or suffering of any living thing which has a nervous system.If an appeal to consequences meant what you think it does, this would be an appeal to consequences. It also has the unfortunate distinction of being untrue. Living a vegan lifestyle won't ensure that you don't contribute to the death or suffering of any living thing which has a nervous system.
What you're thinking of, is an appeal to nature.
Pretty much the only thing you got right was the definition you copy/pasted. So that's a shift in the right direction for you.
We've been over this and I concluded that you're unable to follow the points being made. I remain satisfied that any onlooker would agree. Feel free to check back in when you understand the difference between "abortion is justifiable in ANY scenario" vs "abortion is justifiable in SOME scenarios."
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.