Comments on: Taking sides https://quoderat.megginson.com/2008/09/23/taking-sides/ Open information and technology. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Yip https://quoderat.megginson.com/2008/09/23/taking-sides/#comment-1690 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:43:34 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=224#comment-1690 You may want to look at this technique to resolve the conflicts: http://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Thinking%20Process%20Cloud.htm

]]> By: Doug https://quoderat.megginson.com/2008/09/23/taking-sides/#comment-1689 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:08:56 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=224#comment-1689 Nice post. I’ll add one that seems equally obvious to me:

1. It’s cruel and barbaric to put to death even convicted murderers.
2. It’s enlightened and sensitive to allow putting to death innocent unborn.

(Obviously this hinges on the belief that the unborn are not yet persons – at best, an unprovable assertion. Yet strangely this belief is dogmatically held by the very folks whom I would expect to err on the side of caution with respect to life and human rights.)

3 of the 4 combinations seem logically defensible here, but the most popular one seems to be the least defensible.

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