[politician]

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?

[cutemonster]

> 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

[EEBio]

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