Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad
Synthead@lemmy.world 1 year agoNot quite. From www.logicallyfallacious.com/…/Strawman-Fallacy:
Person 1 makes claim Y.
Person 2 restates person 1’s claim (in a distorted way).
Person 2 attacks the distorted version of the claim.
Therefore, claim Y is false.
With this in mind:
Someone spoke about the ethics of food.
You claimed that plants are food like meat (both living), and we need to accept that we eat living things.
It’s silly to say that it’s unethical to eat plants.
Therefore, the claim about food ethics is silly.
ragusa@feddit.dk 1 year ago
You are misunderstanding my argument. I am not arguing against their conclusion, “it is morally wrong to kill animals”, I am arguing against the validity of their argument, “If something does not want to be killed, it is morally wrong to kill it”. Therefore, I am not restating their claim, I am saying that their argument leads to this absurd conclusion, thus it must be wrong. I have already explained this in a previous comment. You appear to be ignoring what I am writing.