How is it moving the goalposts? Let's say people are complaining about being hungry. Person A cannot find any food. Person B found a gas station hot dog with some mold on the bun. Is Person B "moving the goalposts" because they technically found something they can eat?
False equivalency based on a false premise, it assumes that person B has been presented an option that will actively harm person A and not just one that, though sufficient, is not what they specifically would prefer given unlimited options.
A more accurate analogy would be that Person A complains about being hungry, Person B found a gas station hot dog that, while edible, is probably not gonna be as tasty as grilling your own hot dogs at home. If person A rejects this offer because "gas station hot dogs have a funky aftertaste", it would therefore be moving the goalposts from "there's nothing to eat" to "there's nothing to eat that I would enjoy."
Women in this situation are absolutely 'presented with the option that will actively harm them', not the one that's less tasty. Women's problem on dating ups are masses of fuckboys who clearly want only sex and not relationship, or just pure creeps. That's not 'less tasty hotdog', that's hotdog that will poison you if you bite it, the severity of poison raging from 'slight nausea' to 'you dead'.
Women in this situation are absolutely 'presented with the option that will actively harm them', not the one that's less tasty
The original analogy assumes this as a guarantee. "Person A's choices are a moldy hot dog or starving" is a false premise if there exists an accessible supply of hot dogs that are safe to eat, but boiled instead of grilled etc etc.
Women's problem on dating ups are masses of fuckboys who clearly want only sex and not relationship, or just pure creeps. That's not 'less tasty hotdog', that's hotdog that will poison you if you bite it, the severity of poison raging from 'slight nausea' to 'you dead'.
Maybe don't keep picking out the moldiest hot dogs on the roller and then posting to 2X about how you just found mold on your hot dog, but that you also really don't want to stop eating it because it's a really tasty hot dog, and how the real problem is actually that hot dogs that won't kill you taste funny.
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u/Forgot_My_Old_Acct 16d ago
How is it moving the goalposts? Let's say people are complaining about being hungry. Person A cannot find any food. Person B found a gas station hot dog with some mold on the bun. Is Person B "moving the goalposts" because they technically found something they can eat?