[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhist pacifism

[curt]

Nice work - a google search of either "strawgerm" or "strawbuginom" 
yields no hits! So I give - what the heck are they? Are my arguments 
really so unassailable that new words must be invented to assail them?
- Curt

Jim Peavler wrote:

>
> On Oct 17, 2005, at 11:36 AM, curt wrote:
>
>>
>> Obviously you have to decide where to draw the line, and no one has a 
>> monopoly on where the right place is to draw the line. Especially 
>> preachy vegetarians. Hmmm, are pacifists against the "violence" of 
>> anti-biotics? How about the "violence" of that mass murderer: the 
>> immune system? What is the "justification" for defending oneself 
>> against diseases?
>>
>
> This is a strawbuginom argument with elements of strawgerm fallacy.
>
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