Logic, Premises, and Values

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Logic in Everyday Life

how challenging premises also challenges values

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Basic Presentation

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An example of logic in contemporary life

Andrew Bailey, MO Attorney General, on trans care for teens: Bailey said he “wanted all patients to have access to the information necessary to make health decisions that can have long-term deleterious health consequences....But at the end of the day that started with protecting children,” which means “treating these other mental health problems before we raced down the road of administration of experimental drugs.”

P1: Children should not be allowed to make medical decisions that could harm them. P2: Care for teens who want to transition-- puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery-- are experimental and untested.C: The State of Missouri should regulate trans medical care for people under 18 (and also people over 18)

Digging deeper into premises

P1: Children should not be allowed to make medical decisions that could harm them. Are children making medical decisions now? Who should be allowed to make medical decisions for them?P2: Care for teens who want to transition-- puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery-- are experimental and untested.What does experimental mean, given that these practices have been used and studied for more than 15 years? How much more study would be enough?C: The State of Missouri should regulate trans medical care for people under 18 (and also people over 18)

If we disagree with this premises, what do we do with his conclusion?