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Your take, broken down into its elements goes as follows:
Premises: Doing X is legal. Person Y considers doing X wrong.
Reasoning: People should be allowed to do what is legal without moral objections from others.
Conclusion: Because X is legal, Y shouldn't object to other people doing X, despite the fact that Y thinks it's wrong.
Why shouldn't child abuse and rape be among the possible objectionable acts inserted in the place of variable X? The beautiful thing about logical structures is that their validity is independent of the specific words that are inserted for the variables. If you think the logic in the statement above is valid, then consider the following statements using the exact same logic, just with different variables:
Eating meat is legal. A vegan considers eating meat to be wrong. Because it is legal, the vegan shouldn't object to other people eating meat, despite the fact that they think it's wrong.
Eating children is legal on the cannibal island. Joe considers eating children to be wrong. Because it is legal, Joe shouldn't object to other people eating children, despite the fact that Joe thinks it's wrong.
The nazis set laws which made the holocaust legal. Angela considers the systematic killing of Jews, disabled people, socialists and intellectuals to be wrong. Because they made it legal, Angela shouldn't object to other people doing it, despite the fact that Angela thinks it's wrong.
These statements are identical in their logic. If despite this you disagree with some of the statements but not all of them, then you need to articulate your stance with more nuance.
Doing X is legal.
Person Y has no place telling someone they shouldn’t do X.
Person Y is more then welcome to make the information publicly known and available to anyone that partakes in doing X
Person X is under no obligation to look at said information if they don’t wish to.
Person Y should leave person X alone to live their life without constant harassment from person Y.
Person Y probably doesn’t like others telling them how to live their lives, what they should put in their bodies, who they should marry, love, or live with.
Person Y should note the irony in this.
Person Y should spend their time in support of others that share the same belief than antagonizing those that don’t.
I didn’t read the rest of your wall of text as I have said time and again here that I refuse to argue about it. You all have zero respect for others wishes- I no longer have any for yours. I’ve tagged you as “vegan blowhard” so I’ll now know not to engage with you in the future.
Oh, and congrats! You pushed someone further away from your cause.
Doing the holocaust was legal.
Angela has no right to tell someone they shouldn't do the holocaust.
Angela is more than welcome to make the information publicly available to anyone partaking in doing the holocaust.
The nazi is under no obligation to look at said information if they don't wish to.
Angela should leave the nazi alone to live their life without constant harassment from Angela.
Angela probably doesn't like others telling her how to live her life, what she should put in her body, who she should marry, love or live with.
Angela should note the irony in this.
Angela should spend her time in support of others that share the same belief, rather than antagonising those who don't.
You presented one premise, skipped any attempt at reasoning and all the rest are conclusions based on nothing tangible.
Calling me a vegan blowhard is interesting considering that I already said that I'm not a vegan. I have made no claims on the subject here. I just find logical jousting enjoyable. The fact that you're quite bad at this makes it even more fun.
Who’s Angela? And why is this now suddenly about the holocaust?
Seriously… take away your false equations and you really have nothing. You probably need to learn how to argue a point if you’re going to barge into discussions in defense of things you seem to have no defense for, or wasn’t even asked for to begin with.
And since you are here for no other reason than to argue- that means you have no dog in this race, and therefore- I’m disqualifying you from it.
And thanks for correcting me on the tag. I’ve updated it to just: “Blowhard.”
Now. I’ll unblock you when I feel you’ve had enough time to understand the original point I was making, and how you’ve done nothing but prove it this entire time.
This isn't about the holocaust. It's about your faulty reasoning. I'm just using the holocaust as an easy example of something that is widely considered objectionable in order to demonstrate just how flawed your reasoning is. Angela is just a random value in place of the variable "person Y".
I have made absolutely no changes to the reasoning within the statements. It's all just the same flawed reasoning of yours. If the reasoning were valid, then true premises would always result in true conclusions. This clearly didn't happen, despite the fact that my alternate premises (nazis legalised holocaust) were true. This is deductive argumentation 101.
I do have a dog in the race. I care about the subject. I just haven't talked about it because you're too much fun. The meat industry is a significant contributor to the climate and eco crisis. As a person living on the same planet and reliant on the stability of the same atmospheric and ecological systems, it is a concern of mine that people eat meat and other animal products so much. I've managed to eliminate most animal products from my diet, but not all of them. But regardless of all that, why shouldn't I be allowed to criticise someone for not being logical?
Sure, block me if you want, but I still have a feeling that you'll come to read this, just as you continued the discussion after three times claiming to end it, perhaps hoping that I had slipped up in my response. Who knows, maybe this time you get lucky?