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This is the classic fallacy of "outrage == surprise". You can expect a person or entity might do something you personally find morally wrong and still sound ang
by happytoexplain 3y ago
This is the classic fallacy of "outrage == surprise". You can expect a person or entity might do something you personally find morally wrong and still sound angry when it happens - that's not hypocrisy or ignorance. You might even use words like "shocking" to describe their behavior, because, no matter how expected it might be, immoral behavior is shocking - and should be!
Long story short, sometimes people try to use "expectation" to downplay bad behavior, and that's clearly irrelevant. The "expectation" for a business to do absolutely anything legal for profit is perhaps the most common manifestation of this fallacy.
- dbrueck 3y agoNo, no fallacy - in interviews with activist employees who got fired, it's not uncommon to see both surprise as well as outrage. Regardless, I was commenting on the ones who seem genuinely surprised that being fired was a possible outcome of their protests. It's as if that possibility never crossed their minds, which is itself surprising.