MODR 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lethal Injection, Fallacy, Natural Resource
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Fallacy: premise doesn"t support conclusion, weak connection (cid:498)appeal to a crowd(cid:499): just because a lot of people believe something, doesn"t mean it is (cid:523)ex. Rowls only rational to maximize opportunity to those at bottom. *not rational to just hope for the best (cid:498)roll a double 6(cid:499) Suicide also illegal, therefore helping one commit suicide is helping to commit a crime. Some terminly ill need help, if this is their choice. Choice/ dignity (cid:498)passive active(cid:499) : letting you run your course naturally (cid:498)active(cid:499) : ex. Commonly thought that passive is doing no harm. Tar sands are a resource in canada. Ancient sands that lie underneath the top soil. Canada has a vast resource of this tar sand (sometimes called oil sands) (cid:498)open pit mining(cid:499) (cid:523)must do this to suck out tar sand(cid:524) Remove all top soil, then you get to the tar sand, separate sand from petroleum, need vast amount of fresh water.