It's not a fallacy. The truth table for implication and its contrapositive are the same. A | B | A => B | ¬B => ¬A T | T | T | T T | F |

It's not a fallacy. The truth table for implication and its contrapositive are the same. A | B | A => B | ¬B => ¬A T | T | T | T T | F | F | F F | T | T | T F | F | T | T My original point was that my parent was implicitly claiming that only living things need resources. That seemed absurd to me because of things like viruses, companies, governments, etc.