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The collateral deaths argument and the 'Perfect Solution Fallacy": a false dilemma.
"Derek" > wrote
> The Perfect Solution Fallacy.
> The perfect solution fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs
> when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists
Veganism
> and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part
> of the problem would still exist after it was implemented.
> Presumably, assuming no solution is perfect then no solution
> would last very long politically once it had been implemented.
> Still, many people (notably utopians)
ie vegans
seem to find the idea of
> a perfect solution compelling, perhaps because it is easy to
> imagine.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_solution_fallacy
>
> Read it and find that you've been wasting your time on the
> collateral deaths issue for years, I'm glad to say.
Har har
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