TheRealMafoo on 26 August 2009
| Rath said: @TheRealMafoo. Would you shoot somebody to save the planet? If you say yes, then you're a killer - we just need to negotiate the stakes. Thats the problem with the fallacy of extension. You're extending the idea past what it actually is and then attacking your idea, not the actual one. Its a straw man argument. |
Of course I am a killer, provided the circumstances lead me to kill (in a war, stopping an armed robbery, whatever).
The argument holds true. The only place it doesn't, is I would have a hard time killing someone to save the planet, if that person had done nothing wrong.
The cash for clunkers program, when all said and done, will cost of 2-3 billion dollars. Will we every see a return on that money, and if not, why was it a good thing?
Better yet, let's wait 6 months and see what it did to the auto industry, and I will ask you again. The next 6 months will not be pretty.
