- Fat Man and Little Boy vs. a land invasion to secure unconditional surrender with millions dead
- Abortion on demand vs. treat women as chattel
- Invade Iraq vs. surrender to Islamic terrorism
- Torture prisoners vs. surrender to Islamic terrorism
- Embryonic stem cell research vs. anti-scientific moralism responsible for endless preventable suffering
- Euthenasia vs. being responsible for suffering
- McCain vs. Obama
- UPDATE: Vote vs. engage in armed revolt
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A Modern Litany of False Choices
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The last two are only the only reasonably constructed dichotomies. Most of your examples are dependent upon gross reductionism.
Most of your examples are dependent upon gross reductionism.
Au contraire. The notion that we simply must choose one or the other is, in each of these cases, grossly reductionist. Including the last two.
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