Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Nirvana Fallacy
Today's logical fallacy is the Nirvana Fallacy, or Perfect Solution Fallacy. Essentially, this fallacy is when a person rejects a solution because it isn't absolutely perfect. A current example of this would be the Congressional inability to agree on a budget. Each side has an ideal of what the budget should be, and neither are willing to accept that the final outcome may not live completely up to their ideals. I would also venture this fallacy has been the end of more than a few relationships....
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The "Nirvana Fallacy" is actually a prepubescent's assertion that Kurt Cobain "totally rooled" or "was super deep and shit."
ReplyDeleteAccompanying this state of psychosis is a picture of a smiley face with a bloody bullet-hole in its forehead, identified as "the Nirvana Smiley-face thing" or "Fucking stupid."