The belief efforts to protect people from calamity will only lead to them being more careless, and bringing on more calamity.
This is a fallacy because it (a) assumes people can adjust personal risk to replicate an incomparable situation, and (b) it confusing risk-taking and risky behavior. "Risk-taking" is a neutral term that includes anything that increases risk in some way, such as operating a machine at a higher speed. This usually is done to get some other benefit. "Risky behavior" is foolish, feckless, or sloppy behavior that has no intrinsic utility to the person engaging in it.
This is a fallacy because it (a) assumes people can adjust personal risk to replicate an incomparable situation, and (b) it confusing risk-taking and risky behavior. "Risk-taking" is a neutral term that includes anything that increases risk in some way, such as operating a machine at a higher speed. This usually is done to get some other benefit. "Risky behavior" is foolish, feckless, or sloppy behavior that has no intrinsic utility to the person engaging in it.
An example of the curmudgeon's fallacy is the erroneous claim that safer cars make for careless drivers.
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"Fellategate" is the scandal and media circus surrounding New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's alleged solicitation of prostitution. "Fellategate" spins wonderfully off those other notorious Patriots chestnuts "deflategate" and "spygate."
"The DA's office claims to have video tape of Kraft paying for and receiving the sex acts. Attorneys for Kraft claim, "The video does not show the mogul receiving fellatio but rather a kindly septuagenarian allowing a young woman to vigorously rest her head in his lap."
"The DA's office claims to have video tape of Kraft paying for and receiving the sex acts. Attorneys for Kraft claim, "The video does not show the mogul receiving fellatio but rather a kindly septuagenarian allowing a young woman to vigorously rest her head in his lap."
"As if spygate and deflategate weren't enough controversy for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, we now have the scandal "fellategate," in which Kraft allegedly solicited one or more instances of fellatio at a Florida massage parlor.
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