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It could be "Argument of the Beard", "Causal Reductionism", or "Fallacy of Composition" (http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html http://www.do
by thaumaturgy 9y ago
It could be "Argument of the Beard", "Causal Reductionism", or "Fallacy of Composition" (http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html).
In any case, you're right to point out that it's troll behavior to dump all of the effects of industrial pollution and the resultant politics on a single individual's shoulders, as though one person would have a measurable impact on global climate.
~southern_cross is just framing their argument as, "if you haven't killed yourself yet, then you can't care about the environment", and that's an easy argument to ignore.
- southern_cross 9y agoIt seems you're doing some serious trolling there yourself - putting words in my mouth and all. And as to your "one person" argument, then by that logic none of us should be particularly concerned about making any changes to our own lifestyle, because it probably won't make any difference anyway - too insignificant. Amirite?