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by fighterpilot 1705 days ago
You're arguing that tests for intellectual ability aren't perfect, and they're therefore useless. This is a bad argument.
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It's the same argument as for eliminating TAG programs: that no one should be accelerated because not everyone is accelerated.

This seems like a distressingly common construction. Is it a logical fallacy? Does it have a name?

> Does it have a name?

The word "jealousy" comes to my mind

Maybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards

False dillema or false dichotomy.[0]

These arguments are built on the apparent either-or black-and-white setup, while in the reality, a range of possibilities exists.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma