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Jul 6, 2022·edited Jul 6, 2022

"The slippery slope fallacy is to assume that just because there is vagueness or inability to find a clear distinction point, that there is no distinction between opposite sides"

In many instances, the "extreme pro-life" side does not grant that there is vagueness in the determination that a zygote is a human life. Is the man-made zygote human? Yes. Is a zygote life? Yes. The moral value of the zygote is determined by those criteria. Moral value does not get assigned to the zygote via some foggy definition of personhood.

So they don't grant the vagueness in the question of "Is this human life?" (it's a solved problem), and they do grant that there are distinctions between a zygote and an adult. However, they do not grant that there is a moral distinction. Why must they? Is a 50 year old human and life? Yes. Is a 1 day old entity both human and life? Yes. Where is the inconsistency?

I do not see how this group has engaged in a fallacy. I see how maybe a fallacy has been committed if Mark Changizi uses his personal standards and makes them the standards of the group he disagrees with.

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Mark, while looking into this video I found that YouTube had unsubscribed you from my subscriptions. Just an fyi..

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