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Yes, it's whataboutism. Asking "what about X" is useful to ensure we're focusing on useful changes (at the margin), rather than the flavour of the month.
by foobank 5y ago
Yes, it's whataboutism.
Asking "what about X" is useful to ensure we're focusing on useful changes (at the margin), rather than the flavour of the month.
- arcticbull 5y ago"Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in 'what about…?') is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument." [1] It's a logical fallacy (a form of ad hominem [2]) that doesn't do anything productive in re: the topic at hand. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
- rosndo 5y agoI think you might have fallen victim to the fallacy fallacy :)
- arcticbull 5y agoIn what way does 'oh you hate crypto? what about airplanes?' add something valuable to this conversation? I'd rather have something concrete I can point to explaining my sentiment rather than simply being rude about it.
- rosndo 5y agoPeople complaining about cryptocurrency rarely have internally consistent values, instead they’re just chasing the flavor of the month to virtue signal. It would be fallacious to suggest that someone is wrong because of this, but it works as a standalone observation.