Re:Anti-tumor activity of all-trans retinoic acid in gastric...
by Turing_Machine on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:52PM
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> You’re making a false equivalent.
Not at all.
You: taking Vitamin A in a pill is unnatural. You should get it naturally, by eating organ meat (at the potential cost of getting sick from Vitamin A overdose, which is something that actually happens).
Me: taking an ACE inhibitor in a pill is unnatural. You should get it naturally, by allowing a snake to bite you (at the potential cost of dying from the snake bite).
There's no "false equivalent" here. The statements are exactly analogous.
Not at all.
You: taking Vitamin A in a pill is unnatural. You should get it naturally, by eating organ meat (at the potential cost of getting sick from Vitamin A overdose, which is something that actually happens).
Me: taking an ACE inhibitor in a pill is unnatural. You should get it naturally, by allowing a snake to bite you (at the potential cost of dying from the snake bite).
There's no "false equivalent" here. The statements are exactly analogous.