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That kind of argument is used to justify a lack of action towards progress though. Similar arguments were made by many about slavery at the time: "It would be

• lightbyte 8y ago
  You misunderstand. I'm not saying you can't try and change things, that's exactly what I am saying. You can't demand everything has to perfect right now, you need to actually start the change somewhere. >"It would be nice to abolish slavery but our current economic system isn't even remotely close to being anything like this. It would take generations of change..." This is more like you saying we need to have equal rights for everyone in 1800 before you start working on abolishing slavery in the first place.
  • fzeroracer 8y ago
    You should read up the history of Thaddeus Stevens if you haven't yet already. There comes to a point where you need to make strong demands if you want to make any progress at all for certain things. Demanding incremental progress for things like slavery in the 1800s leads to half-baked compromise that ultimately led to even more issues later down the line.