So torture - no problem, you're a Nazi sympathiser if you object. Murder - well, they're Nazis, they had it coming.
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Isn't this a textbook example of the slippery slope fallacy, though?
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp @svenosaurus
"That's what the words mean" - he's just saying feeling sympathy for a Nazi is being a Nazi sympathizer. What do you think he's saying?
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
OK, true, that's pretty stupid. But that's not a widely held sentiment and I doubt he thought through the meaning of his words (ironically).
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Replying to @svenosaurus
I didn't think he'd mean it on reflection. That was the point I was trying to make. I'm aware you might think punching ok, torture bad! :)
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
People are quick to declare sweeping general principles based on a specific situation that hardly tests boundaries. 1/2
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Replying to @svenosaurus @PhilosophyExp
Usually more likely that they misstated the principle than that they actually apply the principle in egregious ways. 2/2
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Not sure in this case. Think he's playing a rhetorical game based on equivocating between "Nazi sympathizer" - somebody who feels bad for a
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Yes, clearly. But I'm guessing it was an ill-thought argument to justify a pre-held position entirely independent of it.
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Yeah, probably. But the tweet was liked 7000 times and retweeted 22000 times... so it was worth... deconstructing.
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