That we should NOT do anything about lesser problems until…
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This is the "Why should we address climate change when China and India aren't??" fallacy.
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And the "Why should we address sexism in the west when Saudi Arabia exists" fallacy.
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How is this different from whataboutism, or is it another name for it?
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Whataboutism involves accusing someone of something as bad or worse than what they’re criticizing you for, thus implying hypocrisy.
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The list of cognitive errors hardwired into the mind is astonishing.
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We are designed to find food, water, shelter, fight or flight, have sex, raise babies and that’s it. Everything else we have to compensate for.
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This is the "don't spend time/money on ___ because ___ is worse." Usually used against vaccination, because what the villages really need is flush toilets.
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God this fallacy is so bloody infuriating. “Things are worse somewhere else so we can’t possibly justify fixing this issue”.
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The one saving grace here is that the counter-argument is really simple: we can walk and chew gum.
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