Re:Violence against women and girls a national emergency, sa...
by xigoi on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:38AM
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That’s a really contrived analogy. More like:
“Blue-eyed people being unable to afford housing is a national emergency.”
“Why focus specifically on blue-eyed people? Other people are also affected by the housing crisis.”
“Don’t distract from the topic!”
Re:Violence against women and girls a national emergency, sa...
by mikhael28 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @01:46AM
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Eye color is a trivial phenotypical variation that has nothing to do with anything. Like programming languages.
A woman’s biology, by nature of being physically weaker, is a relevant distinction in the context of violence, where physical strength is relevant.
I suppose if someone says ‘In America, the average black family has 25% of the wealth of a white family’ faulty logic might say ‘why leave out the fact that the average white family has 50% of the wealth of an Asian family?’
So, what - the plight of the average white family is the same as the average black family? No, it’s not - so it’s reasonable to discuss that plight in a separate context.
Wait, talking about how JavaScript is a terrible programming language is pointlessly biased - we need to also talk about how Python is a terrible programming language. Everyone always seems to complain about JavaScript, but no one ever talks about how terrible pip is as a system for managing dependencies, or how the 2.x to 3.x migration was terrible implemented.
I think discussing how terrible JavaScript is pointlessly biased. Why focus specifically on JavaScript?
Bad logic right there. You can have a conversation about one topic, by itself - you don't need to bring in adjacent, yet not entirely relevant, topics in order to justify the first one.