Fallacy of relative privation

[HumourlessFeminist]

Just posting this here - it can be really useful when underthinkers some people say Oh, don't you have anything more important to worry about? Well, yes , but I'm capable of caring about more than one thing at once.

Fallacy of relative privation:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Notassbadas

Thank you for this! It's something I could have made use of in several recent conversations!

😄 I find it useful far too often - the Haven't you got anything bigger to worry about argument is just an intellectually lazy attempt at silencing.

There's a name for it??

You learn something new every day!

Agree, I didn't know there was a name!

Probably not exactly what you have in mind, OP, but there's a thread about poverty and someone of course said that the British are much better off than people in other countries. And I couldn't help thinking that unless there was widespread famine in the UK she would continue to think that.