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Re: The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph top speed, 46 mile range

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

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.

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

Re: The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph top speed, 46 mile range

#363
post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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

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