Actually, the example I cited does not require value judgments at all.
Since murder is by definition unlawful killing of a human being, to
argue, as in Premise 2, that capital punishment is murder presupposed
the Conclusion, since Premise 1 previously indicated that murder is
always wrong.  The point is this:  begging the question is using a
hypothesis, a premise, that by its assertion presupposes the validity of
the conclusion, the QED.
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Aaron D. Profitt
The Gentle Misanthrope
"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."  - Voltaire
~veritas omnia vincit~
University of Kansas