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boniaditya

Why worry about SEVERE FINES/DEATH SENTENCE if you follow the rules?

(0) Why worry about privacy if you have nothing to hide -
(1) Why worry about diseases/vaccines when you are clean? (2) Why worry about free speech when you have nothing to say (3) Why worry about politics when you are not going to vote anyway (4) Why worry about the RTC strike if you don’t use public transport (5) Why worry about rape, if you are not a woman (6) Why worry about eve-teasing, if you are not a woman (7) Why worry about Right to education, if you are already literate (8) Why worry about reservation if you don’t belong to Reservation category (9) Why worry about “dying poor people”, when you are rich (10) Why worry about minority rights if you are the majority.

Can you give me a list of Logical Biases that can explain this!
asked on Thursday, Nov 28, 2019 11:38:44 AM by boniaditya

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skips777
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Why worry about privacy if you have nothing to hide -Maybe equivocation fallacy...privacy doesn't simply mean "things one wishes to hide"
Why worry about free speech when you have nothing to say....doesn't mean only my free speech necessarily that I support
Why worry about rape, if you are not a woman :....men are raped also, like in prisons
Why worry about minority rights if you are the majority:..majorities could still have been a minority at one point
A lot of these could be straw man fallacies if you push the "logic" to it's assumed rationale.
Why worry about “dying poor people”, when you are rich :..begs the question maybe, i.e. Rich people shouldn't concern themselves with other socioeconomic groups
These might be all opinions...

answered on Thursday, Nov 28, 2019 01:20:42 PM by skips777

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Bo Bennett, PhD
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All of the questions assume a self-centric worldview. We worry about things that don't affect us personally because of our compassion for others who are affected by such things. The questions demonstrate a lack of emotional intelligence more than fallacious reasoning.
answered on Friday, Nov 29, 2019 11:31:18 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD

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