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Come on now, I don’t think it was meant as a justification of that inexcusable driver’s behaviour.
by ziofill 7d ago
Come on now, I don’t think it was meant as a justification of that inexcusable driver’s behaviour.
- staticshock 7d agothe downvoted comment sounded like textbook whataboutism to me. those who responded have their antennae up for rhetorical fallacies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- roenxi 7d agoClassifying something as a textbook whataboutism is typically itself a rhetorical fallacy. It is rare for it to be used in the sense of identifying a real problem. Normally when it gets invoked someone has an argument, often a reasonable one, and someone else wants to pretend it isn't a valid but can't come up with a logical inconsistency. In this case nxm's comment has formal problems - it is just irrelevant. True or not, it doesn't justify mowing down cyclists.
- esrauch 7d agoWhat was the comment trying to say?