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Relative Privation

Logical fallacy

Dismissing a problem by pointing to a worse one. That something worse exists does not make the thing in question acceptable.

An everyday example

“You can't complain about a broken leg: some people have cancer.”

The same move in this debate

“There are bigger problems in the world than farm animals.”

Where this appears

Why do you care about animals but not humans?Ethics & Morality

Dismisses the issue by pointing to a more serious one. That human suffering exists and matters more does not make a lesser harm acceptable, or the reasoning about it wrong.