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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by thiht on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:54PM (#33756632)
> let's buy a car and fuck the planet

There’s currently football matches being played in Qatar in stadiums with AC set to 20°C in 32°C weather. Thousands of people have travelled there by plane.

Me having a car is fine.

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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by lm28469 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:37PM (#33758158)
The two aren't mutually exclusive
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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by thiht on Sunday November 27, 2022 @10:21AM (#33763482)
Yeah they kinda are. Scales matter. I know the « A not as bad as B » fallacy and in my opinion it falls short when A is completely negligible compared to B, because it’s not a fallacy anymore, it’s just reality.
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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by nephanth on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:04PM (#33758889)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by thiht on Sunday November 27, 2022 @10:26AM (#33763515)
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.

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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by nephanth on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @03:47AM (#33798390)
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

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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by thiht on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:00PM (#33803607)
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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