11 Apr
2015
11 Apr
'15
5 p.m.
Russell Coker wrote:
Value statements can be logically deduced from other value statements. It's generally agreed that murder is wrong, even Rothbard agrees with that. Therefore it logically follows that starving people to death is also wrong, [...]
Er, you're making some pretty big semantic jumps there. *Murder* might be "wrong", but I don't see where you're demonstrating that "starving people" is automatically murder -- rather than (say) manslaughter, criminal negligence, assisted suicide, or lawful killing.
Given that we agree that killing people is wrong then defining "evil" [...]
You've just jumped from "murder" to "killing people". I'm not convinced you can handwave away these distinctions.