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> let's buy a car and fuck the planet There’s currently football matches being played in Qatar in stadiums with AC set to 20°C in 32°C weather. Thousands of pe

• lm28469 4y ago
  The two aren't mutually exclusive
  • thiht 4y ago
    Yeah they kinda are. Scales matter. I know the « A not as bad as B » fallacy and in my opinion it falls short when A is completely negligible compared to B, because it’s not a fallacy anymore, it’s just reality.
• nephanth 4y ago
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
  • thiht 4y ago
    https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority Using fallacies to invalidate arguments should be a fallacy by itself. Maybe my argument is a fallacy logically speaking, but in the real world, not everything is ruled by formal logic. If A is completely negligible compared to B, the « A not as bad as B » fallacy doesn’t apply anymore.
    • nephanth 4y ago
      Of course it still does. To me, your argument sounds pretty much the same as "The us dropped a nuke on Hiroshima. Me throwing a molotov at my neighbor is fine." Sure that molotov is negligible in front of B. Doesn't make it okay
      • thiht 4y ago
        A more proper equivalent would be me throwing a molotov on hiroshima the day after the nuke impact. Same victim. The atmosphere is global, there's no Qatar's atmosphere and my neighbor's atmosphere