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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by esperent on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:13AM (#27649045)
So if I'm fine with GMO food (and medicine), by extension I'll fine with this.

... Or is that a logical fallacy?

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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by HPsquared on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:08AM (#27650542)
The statement was "If A, then B". You're not A, so it doesn't apply. The statement doesn't say anything about the "Not A" case.
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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by systoll on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:02PM (#27657356)
That’d be a logical fallacy: Denying the antecedent.

If your program won’t compile, it has a bug somewhere.

If your program will compile, it almost certainly still has a bug somewhere.

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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by oehtXRwMkIs on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:53AM (#27652036)
The inverse of a conditional is not logically equivalent.
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