[ExI] owwwww, dang

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 11:13 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I don't see the relevance of the xkcd strip, or how the fallacy mentioned
> there applies here. Perhaps it's too subtle for me.
>

John's post continued the theme (by implication, but a fairly direct
implication) in several of his posts, that the only thing anyone should
care about is preventing Trump from launching a nuclear war / is getting
Trump out of office as soon as possible.

The XKCD strip points out that, just because there exists one important
problem, is not an excuse to stop caring about everything else, or
especially to stop spending resources on fixing other problems.  There are
many important problems.  Resources spent fixing one of them are not
mis-spent merely because they are not spent on the others instead.
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