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Old 11-10-2005, 02:49 AM
imported_luckyme imported_luckyme is offline
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Default Re: Is this how an athiest thinks? Its what i feel at the moment.

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If we are animals then we should be able to do what we want, whenever we want.

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I see Cooker has commented on some of your premises, I'll focus on some of the logic. Even if we grant your premise about other animals, it doesn't follow that we acquire their properties just because we are another form of animal.

"Birds are animals".
"Birds can Fly"
"We're animals"
"We should be able to fly"

The flying is a property of 'bird' not of the general category 'animal' so it doesn't flow thru. In your argument you've committed an equivocation error, you use the term animal but in two different ways. As "other animals" and as "all animals including us", if you substitute the definitions I just wrote for your two uses of animal you will see you've arrived at the 'bird' situation.
hope that helps. glad you're enjoying the forum.
luckyme
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