Dutch said:"Ipse dixit" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:
"Dutch" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:"Ipse dixit" wrote:
> Superior ethical vegans buy their food and goods from suppliers which may or may not have
> accrued collateral deaths while producing them
So now there are "classes" of vegans, "regular", "superior", any others?
No. All ethical vegans are superior, especially me.
At least we can put the old denial to rest now.. vegans DO believe they enjoy moral superiority.
I can't speak for them all, but I certainly do.
Quoted message said:Since the vegans in your statement make no effort to know if collateral deaths have occurred, how
do they attain this moral superiority?
Plurium Interrogationum. Your question has a false or disputed presupposition: that the vegans I
referred to in my statement make no effort to find out whether collateral deaths have occurred.
It was a question with a false, disputed, or question-begging presupposition. To ask such a question
is invokes a fallacy.
A "loaded question", like a loaded gun, is a dangerous thing. A loaded question is a question with
a false or questionable presupposition, and it is "loaded" with that presumption. The question
"Have you stopped beating your wife?" presupposes that you have beaten your wife prior to its
asking, as well as that you have a wife. If you are unmarried, or have never beaten your wife, then
the question is loaded. Since this example is a yes/no question, there are only the following two
direct answers:
1.. "Yes, I have stopped beating my wife", which entails "I was beating my wife."
2.. "No, I haven't stopped beating my wife", which entails "I am still beating my wife."
Thus, either direct answer entails that you have beaten your wife, which is, therefore, a
presupposition of the question. So, a loaded question is one which you cannot answer directly
without implying a falsehood or a statement that you deny. For this reason, the proper response to
such a question is not to answer it directly, but to either refuse to answer or to reject the
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I reject the question.