Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism by Huemer Michael;

Author:Huemer, Michael;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

(f) On rejecting positions that “sound crazy”

M: I’m sorry, but this is making you sound like a crazy extremist.

V: Is there something wrong with my reasoning?

M: I don’t know what’s wrong with it, but the idea that animal agriculture is worse than the problem of war, or poverty, or disease, just sounds to me so extreme that it makes me want to say there must be something wrong with your argument.

V: And you think that’s enough to reject the argument?

M: I do. I learned that from G. E. Moore: if you have an argument for a conclusion that seems crazy, you should reject it, even if you can’t say exactly what’s wrong with it.4

V: G. E. Moore was responding to philosophical skeptics who argue that no one knows anything about the world outside their own minds.

M: Right. The idea that I don’t know, for instance, whether I have hands is so implausible on its face that if I hear an argument for that conclusion, I should infer that some step in the argument is wrong, even if I can’t say which one or why.

V: And you think I’m like the philosophical skeptic.

M: Well, some of your views also sound crazy at first.

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