"Fracking merely releases that potential energy. It does not cause the earthquake, merely triggers it happening at that time"
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For science buffs, an analogy: "The amount of force I used to push that man off a ledge wasn't nearly enough to shatter his spine"
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"The potential energy that reduced him to a spatter of bloody gore was inherent in the system of him being on the roof"
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"Logically he would have come down from the roof sooner or later. I merely triggered its occurrence in one specific way"
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This is the pinnacle of making an argument that is technically true but utterly pointless. I honestly can't think of how you could top it
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Fracking seems to attract a lot of nerds who like to make "technically!" arguments that have nothing to do with why it's bad
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"Fracking doesn't cause 'flammable water'. That's fundamentally impossible! H2O is in a nearly maximally stable energy state"
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"You can't 'burn water'. All that happens is there are dissolved gases in the water that ignite when they evaporate from the surface"
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"The idea that the water itself is burning is an optical illusion. Look closely and you can see no water is being consumed"
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I've only encountered that argument as an "Actually!" in flammable water videos but I'd love to see it catch on
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"Look the *water* isn't any more toxic than it was before. The water is the same. It's just that now there's poison *in* the water"
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*chuckles* "The water isn't brown, it's clear. What you're seeing is an optical illusion caused by brown particles suspended in the water"
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