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Description: Making a claim that needs justification, then demanding that the opponent justifies the opposite of the claim.
In your initial response, you made a claim that needs justification:
Hell, if you’d stopped to think for half a second you’d realize all that will do is increase patient costs and endanger the blood supply.
You are now demanding that I either accept your unsubstantiated claim, or prove it false. As the link you have spammed in response demonstrates, your argument is fallacious, and the burden of proving your initial claim rests with you.
The only claim arising before yours is the idea that paying people for blood could increase the blood supply. Technically, that claim does require proof, and technically, that proof has not been provided. But, the concept of “basic economics” has been so well demonstrated that refusing to accept that premise would be a profound exercise of intellectual dishonesty.
Edit: since you added a “false dichotomy” argument, I’ll address it as well. You were asked to choose between defending your previous claim or not defending your claim. That is a Boolean condition. There is no intermediate or alternate position. Any action you take will either be in defense of your position, or not in defense of your position.
You have the choice of maintaining your claim or not maintaining your claim. That is a second Boolean condition. Again, there is no intermediate or alternate condition. Any action you take will either be to maintain your previous claim, or not
Two Boolean conditions leaves a total of four options. Defend and maintain, defend and not maintain, not defend and maintain, not defend and not maintain. Of those four conditions, only two are rational. Defending your claim, yet abandoning it is not rational; not defending your claim yet maintaining it is not rational.
The options I provided are the only two rational options regarding your initial claim. “False dilemma” only applies to this scenario if you wish to pursue one of the two demonstrably irrational options.
Yes, exactly:
In your initial response, you made a claim that needs justification:
You are now demanding that I either accept your unsubstantiated claim, or prove it false. As the link you have spammed in response demonstrates, your argument is fallacious, and the burden of proving your initial claim rests with you.
The only claim arising before yours is the idea that paying people for blood could increase the blood supply. Technically, that claim does require proof, and technically, that proof has not been provided. But, the concept of “basic economics” has been so well demonstrated that refusing to accept that premise would be a profound exercise of intellectual dishonesty.
Edit: since you added a “false dichotomy” argument, I’ll address it as well. You were asked to choose between defending your previous claim or not defending your claim. That is a Boolean condition. There is no intermediate or alternate position. Any action you take will either be in defense of your position, or not in defense of your position.
You have the choice of maintaining your claim or not maintaining your claim. That is a second Boolean condition. Again, there is no intermediate or alternate condition. Any action you take will either be to maintain your previous claim, or not
Two Boolean conditions leaves a total of four options. Defend and maintain, defend and not maintain, not defend and maintain, not defend and not maintain. Of those four conditions, only two are rational. Defending your claim, yet abandoning it is not rational; not defending your claim yet maintaining it is not rational.
The options I provided are the only two rational options regarding your initial claim. “False dilemma” only applies to this scenario if you wish to pursue one of the two demonstrably irrational options.
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