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Rosa Parks and a billionaire defying an order to put production on hold because the county feels it isn't safe for his workers to return to work makes for a hell of a comparison.



I don't think it was meant to be a comparison between the two, I think it was meant to be a counterexample to the notion that we should always follow the law.


People always like to attack the logic finding holes in them. There is a name for this fallacy


The fallacy of the rational actor. When you assume that pointing out flaws in people’s logic will cause them to re-asses their position.


And if one wanted to refresh their memory on logical fallacies, what might that name be?




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