Well, conversely, do you have examples that don’t involve one side trying to claim a moral high ground and trivialize other concerns? That is the main class of examples I can see relevant to your posts and for these I don’t think the problem is an “any reason” phenomenon, it’s breaking out of the terrain where the further reasons are presumed trivial.
Well, conversely, do you have examples that don’t involve one side trying to claim a moral high ground and trivialize other concerns? That is the main class of examples I can see relevant to your posts and for these I don’t think the problem is an “any reason” phenomenon, it’s breaking out of the terrain where the further reasons are presumed trivial.
Some further examples:
Past me might have said: Apple products are “worse” because they are overpriced status symbols
Many claims in politics, say “we should raise the minimum wage because it helps workers”
We shouldn’t use nuclear power because it’s not really “renewable”
When AI lab CEOs warn of AI x risk we can dismiss that because they might just want to build hype
AI cannot be intelligent, or dangerous, because it’s just matrix multiplications
One shouldn’t own a cat because it’s an unnatural way for a cat to live
Pretty much any any-benefit mindset that makes it into an argument rather than purely existing in a person’s behavior