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Why is the word choice more important than the issue? You've certainly spent more time worrying over that than the issue of laws being targeted at homeless people.
Targeting vulnerable populations with laws intended to make their lives specifically worse is obviously bad. You shouldn't even need a story to understand that that's bad. So you're giving off the strong impression that your actual problem here is that anyone is questioning the targeting of homeless people with the law.
It's a feeling I have. We are in a lemmy forum and not a moderated debate stage so I'm not sure why you think calling logical fallacy is going to separate me from my intuition.
What does a moderated debate have to do with anything? It is a fallacy because it is nonsensical. Even if what you say is true (sadly, you got it wrong, but that's par for the course), it changes absolutely nothing about the conversation. It is equivalent to you adding "And the sky is blue!"
You can say it if you want. It's just not clear what value you think it adds. It indicates absolutely nothing.
I'm just noting the impression that you're giving me. That you are pro targeting vulnerable populations with the law.
It suggests the kind of values you have and, in turn, how much value I ought to give your input.
Absolutely the topic stands alone. What the city of Barrie is getting up to is reprehensible and what the group sending the complaint is doing is fine. I wasn't really discussing those terms because I don't consider your original complaint to be particularly worthwhile and my main goal was sussing out why you were making it.
As noted by that sentence. Well, I've made my decision on why I think you were making that argument and now I've said it.
I did in fact say why I noted it.
Figuring out your purpose in making the complaint you did was the primary reason I was engaging with you. I didn't particularly care to debate the complaint itself which I don't consider worthwhile.
I think maybe I'm not making myself clear enough? I thought I was, but I'll try again.
I wondered why you were making such a worthless complaint about the article. After our back and forth I made a decision on why I think you made such a worthless complaint about the article. I then noted that decision.
Is that clear enough?
Uh, right off the bat? Your original comment complaining about their word choice?
As to why I noted my decision, because it was the conclusion to the point of my engaging with you. This is all just gravy.