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Quote by: StrongHeartsWin  No, I am for vegetarianism and the elimination of meat production -- which entails the whole process from birth to packaging. You are not understanding this. |
AKA "the slaughtering process"... Anything that positively effects the carrying out of the slaughtering, which includes production of animals to slaughter, is a part of the process.
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To you, yes. To me and perhaps others looking in on the debate "no." When some are undecided on an issue, often the opinion of a well respected person on the issue is enough to make them fall off the fence
I am surprised you don`t understand this and the persuasive powers of words from respected persons.
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Would his words be any more or less valid if they were spoken by someone else?
No. The fact that he said them means nothing in a debate. Either admit that his quote is irrelevant, or you are appealing to authority. Don't feed me this BS about how you only "value" his opinion, then try to force it into the argument.
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To illustrate that "the beliefs you share in common with these people due to the same reasoning process which is being outlined" IS NOT an ad hominem. It is outlining through analogies your reasoning processes with history as a back drop.
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Racists believed that certain humans were, genetically, above others.
I believe that animals are below humans.
If you can somehow equate me to a racist, then you can also equate CEO's, the government, and any employer to racists. They pay certain people less, based on a generality. In this case, the work that they do, as opposed to skin color.
See the invalidity of your tangential claims?