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Re:Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ dr... by christophilus on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:32PM (#21196211)
Sounds like the broken window fallacy: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa...
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Re:Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ dr... by tlb on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:11PM (#21196631)
The fallacy is that it's good to break windows. Even though it's not good to break them, fixing windows that are already broken is worthwhile.
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