We can reflectively apply our intuition—we can use the phrase “Capital punishment is murder” to remind other people that capital punishment does share some of the same disadvantages that all other murders have
More generally, it is worth noting that a very tempting class of bad arguments is those which are slightly true, such as this.
More generally, it is worth noting that a very tempting class of bad arguments is those which are slightly true, such as this.
Reminds me of http://lesswrong.com/lw/aq2/fallacies_as_weak_bayesian_evidence/
That’s more or less the point of http://lesswrong.com/lw/aq2/fallacies_as_weak_bayesian_evidence/.