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A rich heiress who has likely spent a lot of time on private jets in her lifetime is pretty low on the list of people Ill take climate change advice from.
by kyleblarson 7y ago
A rich heiress who has likely spent a lot of time on private jets in her lifetime is pretty low on the list of people Ill take climate change advice from.
- UweSchmidt 7y agoIt seems like there is a sense that environmental/climate problems affect everyone, including wealthy people, and her ideas sound reasonable, constructive and fair. An initiative to wash clothes in a way that causes less ecological damage could very well come from the fashion industry (as it may require new types of fabric etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
- hnhg 7y agoThe opposite of the ad hominem also applies. Why is she eminently qualified to provide the correct answer to this particular problem?
- latch 7y agoBecause she's a fashion designer and surely that's _one_ perspective worth considering with respect to pretty much anything related to clothes? Not only is she eminently qualified to talk about it from a fashion point of view, she probably has good practical experience with fabrics and wear and tear (longevity being one of the reasons she advises against it). It's not like she's an actress telling people vaccines cause autism or something.
- AstralStorm 7y agoI'd take a word of a material engineer and chemical process engineer way over anything she has to say... Fashion is not really a credential. They make clothes, not break them.
- UweSchmidt 7y agoSure, as long as we are focussed on the issue and are mentally prepared to change our ways a little bit, if needed.
- pizza234 7y agoThe problem is in the perspective. Imagine a person with a very unhealthy lifestyle giving sound, correct, health advice. While the advice itself is correct, the fact that this person lives a very unhealthy lifestyle shows that the root of the problem is somewhere else. Ad hominem is about the logic of an argument. The parent said something quite precise - "[she] is pretty low on the list of people Ill take climate change advice from" - he didn't say that she's wrong. I totally support that argument. There are surely plenty of people with a significantly lower global impact, that can give advice that is correspondingly more effective.