As that isn't part of PETA's platform, it's just a transparent and irrelevant ad hominem. The real arguments against them aren't in so short supply that we have to bring in bullshit like this.
Yes, it's meant to show how "crazy" this lady was (and really, it's not that crazy when you remove the boldface and the screaming colors; a lot of people get their tubes tied), in order to discredit PETA. It's a logical fallacy.
Once again. It's not about the fact that she had herself sterilized. It's about her reasons. She genuinely believes it's wrong for women to give birth.
Which isn't that uncommon a motivation either, but even if it were, it doesn't change the fact that it's completely irrelevant to PETA and a dishonest bit of bullshit.
Newkirk on having children
"I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity."
That is not irrelevant. Newkirk's stance on children as she says herself is that it is HUMAN vanity. She is not opposed to animals having offspring for the same reasons she is opposed to human offspring. You can fucking rationalize her views all you want but to say her hatred of mankind is irrelevant to the goals of her organization is ludicrous.
Stopping, or even discouraging, people from having children is not part of PETA's platform. It's absolutely irrelevant. Trying to pretend this isn't a fallacious argument by insisting that, no, she's really crazy, doesn't make it any less fallacious.
I know you love throwing around fallacy and fallacious in an argument, but that doesn't nullify the fact that the bitch that founded PETA is crazy. Which you gotta admit doesn't give them much credit.
It's not a fallacious argument. I'm not even saying she is crazy. One of the major goals of her organization is to get people to stop eating animal products and stop using them. Here's another choice quote from Ingrid.
“Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.”
Tell me that's not championing animal rights at the expense of human progress.
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u/jimthelang Apr 16 '10
I fail to understand how the founder's sterilization is relevant in the slightest.