(December 7, 2020 at 3:58 pm)tackattack Wrote: @Rhizomorph13 sorry if I restated my case multiple time. I thought that some responses were still missing my point. Yes you have stated that correctly. Other than it being a fallacy of appealing to emotion, I believe is both morally wrong to appropriate tragic deaths and it adds to the already emotional irrationality of the cesspool of stupidity that exists in the US regarding Covid, vaccines and masks. I don't believe any of these reason elevate the conversation.The problem I see though isn't emotional irrationality but just a dispassionate reaction to what's going on i.e. downplaying the significance of the deaths. I've heard many people since March talking about how Covid is "just a poopy cold" or that it kills less people than the flu, which totally misses the point. I see emotionality being a very good tool to rouse people from their complacence even if it rents headspace by appealing to other tragedy's to get the job done.
Just my two cents.