The way people apply this argument to veganism but not to anything else looks suspiciously like motivated reasoning.
I wrote a comment, the commenting system ate it, so I rewrote my response as a blog post: http://www.jefftk.com/p/applying-the-best-tradeoff-argument-generally
Thanks Jeff! You make a good point there—people do apply this sort of argument in a lot of cases, and lots of times they’re right to do so. It looks like I fell prey to the “failure to think of examples implies no examples exist” fallacy.
I wrote a comment, the commenting system ate it, so I rewrote my response as a blog post: http://www.jefftk.com/p/applying-the-best-tradeoff-argument-generally
Thanks Jeff! You make a good point there—people do apply this sort of argument in a lot of cases, and lots of times they’re right to do so. It looks like I fell prey to the “failure to think of examples implies no examples exist” fallacy.