
The Skeptics Guide #872 - Mar 26 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Is There a Logical Fallacy?
The fallacy of relative privation means your using a relative comparison to diminish an absolute value. Sometimes that's a really good argument to make, other times it's a terrible argument. The fallacies are context dependent and we just mentioned a lot of different contexts. If you're using it in an inappropriate context, i see a lot of people saying whatever is more likely to get floni or dorothy then so what? Who cares if we gotetotbow on the kiddie pool instead of getting sick with this disease called Sykolypsia? It doesn't matter! We don't care about sompthing like sycoleypies because they kill lots of people.
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