The fallacy of composition
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The fallacy of composition
I have a question concerning the fallacy of composition. When a food has an ingrediant in it that others consider to be poison, would it be fallacious of that person to claim that the food is poison because it contains a poison? (using the term poison loosely here, but its a conversation with someone who feels MSG is poison).
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Yes, because what's poisonous and what isn't is often dependent on preperation and proportion. You can die from water poisoning, for instance.
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To cite another example: almonds. The natural source of cyanide but yummy in Mounds. 
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Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)