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To: SoCal Pubbie

"Where would you like your reasoning to end?"

As is the mode in the real world, it doesn't "end."

There is an area of things that are clearly okay, a gray area of hard calls, and an area of things that are clearly not okay.

Take your dog in for a rabies shot: clearly okay.
A $5,000 operation: hard call, lots of things to think about.
A $50,000 prosthesis for a dog that lost a leg: clearly immoral.

One thing is certain: the reductio ad absurdum is often abused in our day and age. Sometimes it is valid and applicable, but often, as here, it is not.


90 posted on 12/07/2006 10:52:09 AM PST by dsc
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To: dsc
"A $50,000 prosthesis for a dog that lost a leg: clearly immoral. "

Why? It may be foolish, it may be on the short end of a cost benefit analysis, but I don't see why it is immoral on its face.
121 posted on 12/07/2006 12:27:48 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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