Re:Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been risi...
by pvaldes on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:10PM
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I'll suggest just ignoring this type of moral based statements structured as:
1- if A is true (meaning are you a good citizen or not?)
2- then do B
Hiding the fact that A is a emotional statement and can fit in lots of opposite cases and circumstances because is ambiguous and moral based, and "moral" is an elusive and unmeasurable concept.
Thus, A and B are presented as dependent variables without any proof of this, and in fact in most of the cases are unrelated.
"Do you care about animals (preyed by nasty tentacular predators)? then you really should eat octopus", works perfectly also.
1- if A is true (meaning are you a good citizen or not?)
2- then do B
Hiding the fact that A is a emotional statement and can fit in lots of opposite cases and circumstances because is ambiguous and moral based, and "moral" is an elusive and unmeasurable concept.
Thus, A and B are presented as dependent variables without any proof of this, and in fact in most of the cases are unrelated.
"Do you care about animals (preyed by nasty tentacular predators)? then you really should eat octopus", works perfectly also.