Here are some examples of special pleading. See if you can figure out why it's a spurious form of argumentation.
Example: "Cocaine use should be legal. Like all drugs, it does have some adverse health effects, but cocaine is different from other drugs. Many have benefited from the effects of cocaine."
Example: "I know you think that I should be giving my money to the poor, but you've never been rich before. There are things about wealth that you don't understand."
Example: "I know the idea that ball lightning is caused by ghosts makes no sense to you, but that's only because you're human. Humans cannot understand supernatural phenomena."
Example: "The human eye is far too complex to have evolved from a simpler system, therefore it must have had a more complex creator. That creator would be God. No god doesn't need a creator ibecause he isn't bound by the laws of the universe. He exists outside of time."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
2007-04-10 14:27:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A priori statements. All of the defense arguments are for the person or group that benefits from it. They center everything around a beneficial idea and go from there instead of using the five senses to rationalize it.
2007-04-10 14:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Maikeru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes , its an opinion , either based on logical fact , or theory , that is twisted with words as to pull anothers mind into the orbit of the thought with no real proof of the discovery of truth concerning the pleading .
2007-04-10 14:33:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saying I know that doesn't make sense but this is different becaus (insert rationalization here). Way to make a point.
2007-04-10 14:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lil jon and the eastside boyz-Get low...that's not an spectacular music even if it brings back concepts from like 2003 that's from this sort of classic interest!-------'choose for velocity-underground'--- that's why i like it-it replace into the days the place no person had ps2's and it replace into sooo cool to very own one.
2016-10-21 14:09:22 · answer #4 · answered by shakita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i just KNOW there's a point in there somewhere...
2007-04-10 14:41:29 · answer #5 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what is your question?
2007-04-10 14:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋