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What are the characteristics of good reasons in ethics? - -relevant to position -provide evidence for a position -support a conclusion as an argument -appeals not to evidence but to a principle -should not contradict each other and be logically consistent truth - how premises correspond or not to the world validity - the formal relations between premises and conclusion Slippery slope - argument that a small change in the current practice will lead to terrible results; no logical place to draw the line Conceptual - once a small change is made, other changes will logically follow, appeals to something good in human nature Empirical - taking the first step unleashes something bad in human nature Ad hominem - - "to the man" -a personal attack on someone else Tu quoque - --"you too" --two wrongs make a right --Justifying our actions by claiming that others have committed the same wrong