“Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them”
– Paul Valéry
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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way”
“The more I think of it I find this conclusion more impressed upon me — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.”
– John Ruskin
Appeal to Worse Problems
Also called:
The "Children Are Starving In Africa!" Argument.
Fallacy of relative privation (its proper name).
Arguing that expressing concern about a (relatively) small problem means that the person doesn’t care about any larger problems. A type of Strawman.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppealToWorseProblems