What Is The Name Of This Logical Fallacy

[Trevorblack2014]

I was in a conversation with a guy who said "You might not find soldiers being injured or killed, a form of entertaiment but some people do and who are you to stand in their way?

This was after I confronted someone for mocking the deaths of soldiers in a military group on some website.

[Jackdaw33]

It is not a logical fallacy, it's just pig ignorance.

[Mamyalynne]

See if it has made this list


http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm

[bookbinder]

Here are a few websites that might explain this type of behaviour, although I tend to go for the 'lack of empathy' one:
http://symptomchecker.webmd.com/multiple-symptoms?symptoms=emotional-detachment%7Cfeeling-of-being-detached-from-reality%7Cfrightening-thoughts%7Cimpulsive-behavior&;symptomids=440%7C371%7C427%7C265&locations=2%7C2%7C2%7C2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder
http://blog.tranquilene.com/disconnection-from-reality-is-common-in-anxiety-sufferers/
http://www.diagnose-me.com/what-causes/feeling-detached-from-reality.html
https://www.quora.com/What-do-people-who-lack-empathy-act-like
This attitude resembles that shown by German troops in WW2, who executed defenceless civilians in occupied zones.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is it not a play on "standing in their way" meaning literally as a target or figuratively as a hindrance?

[Hypognosis]

@Trevorblack2014

Although the example the other person chose is abhorrent to most of us they are basically just pushing the boundaries of "freedom of speech/thought" to its very limits.

Which is kind of the point of most freedom of speech arguments: how repellent/intolerant/unempathic/perverted are we willing to put up with.

The catch is, once you draw a line *anywhere* you can no longer claim to uphold freedom of speech in your country. Some countries make much more of a fuss about it than others. Britain does not have a formal constitution to get hung up about.

Anyway I see no logical fallacy. I do, however see crapulence. (you won't find that in the dictionary though; please don't pass it on).

[Peter Pedant]

non sequitur

the bricks/bits of the argument dont fit together

[birdie1971]

It's the "appeal to authority" fallacy (ie. the "authority" being the quoted 'people': https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority).

Essentially your guy is saying that the crowd is right and you're wrong because the moral authority (in this instance) is with the crowd (ie. many people believe that you're wrong, therefore you're wrong - no reasoning required). I have a natural aversion to the 'crowd' mentality. The 'crowd' is often irrational, stupid, blinded by emotion and powerful. In the words of the late, great ,Terry Pratchett, "The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.".

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/

[birdie1971]

^

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority