A sure sign of a really bad argument is when the protagonist uses “not dying” as a justification for horrible actions. Particularly entertaining is when apolog

A sure sign of a really bad argument is when the protagonist uses “not dying” as a justification for horrible actions. Particularly entertaining is when apologists for the British Empire justify starvation events in Ireland and India. Particularly in Ireland when one of the peak famine years was a year of record exports of meat and wheat. The British government was of course, helpless to do much - they were concerned about the moral hazard of handing out food to dying people.