Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing Number of Voices Say Yes

Re:Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing N... by chr1 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:01AM (#20625747)

I am saying that any person who would use logic to analyze the proposed analogy and its consequences would see that it is absurd, independently from feelings and intuition. A normal reply to this would be a chain of arguments showing that in some case the analogy is giving a useful result.

Are you saying that logic is just "my reaction", and it is not any more valid than feelings?

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Re:Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing N... by wpietri on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:25PM (#20637424)

I have already said I think it's an adequate analogy. Others clearly have too. Your belief that your personal thoughts are universal and infallible is your belief. It's not one I found persuasive at the beginning, and less so the more you insist on it.

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Re:Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing N... by chr1 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:33PM (#20639353)

You said that you think it is adequate, but you didn't say why you think that. I do not think that my personal, or anyone else's thoughts are universal or infallible, but i think it is possible to find common understanding using logic.

> It's not one I found persuasive at the beginning, and less so the more you insist on it

I didn't add anything to my initial argument to make it more persuasive, i merely asked you to tell your arguments in favor of the analogy, as i hoped you may have something more interesting to say than "your thoughts are your thoughts and my thoughts are mine" which is a tautological truth.

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