PHI-2630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Straw Man, Logical Biconditional, False Dilemma
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Slippery slope: if we allow gay marriage, we"ll soon allow marriage to pets, then marrying inanimate objects will become compulsory and any other form of love will be banned. Straw man: i don"t know how to respond to your argument, but i can respond to a much worse version of your argument which i can then attribute to you. False dilemma: you either love the president, or you hate america. Not giving an inch: if a certain action is right to perform, everything speaks in it"s favor. Normative ethics: the branch of ethics concerned with giving a general account of what is right and wrong. A normative theory will fill in the biconditional. An action a is right/wrong iff ______________. Maximizing happiness and welfare; the rightness or wrongness of actions depends entirely on how they affect the human welfare or happiness.
