Let’s Play: Spot the Fallacy.

Let’s Play: Spot the Fallacy.

1.       Premise One: Marxism justifies rape.

2.       Premise Two: Rape can never be justified.

3.       Conclusion: we must not be Marxists.

Response:

1.       Premise One and Premise Two are mutually exclusive.

a.       Premise One justifies rape. This renders the justification of rape a possibility. Premise Two denies this possibility.

                                                              i.      Marxism was established by us as a Should.

                                                            ii.      Should implies Can. (Rawles.) If we SHOULD be Marxists, then we CAN be Marxists.

                                                          iii.      If being Marxist justifies rape, either inevitably or incidentally, then it CAN be justified. If it could not, that would only be because we could NOT be Marxists, a condition that would pre-clude the possibility, at least by this avenue of reasoning.

2.       Premise one never passes judgement upon Rape, because it is merely an End. It never passes judgement upon Marxism, which remains an imperative Means.

3.       Premise two only passes judgement upon Rape, as an End. It never passes judgement upon Marxism, as a Means.

a.       The Means all ways justify the Ends. (Frankl.)

b.      The Ends never justify the Means.

4.       The Conclusion is there by arbitrary.

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