Appeal to Worse Problems

Also called:

The "Children Are Starving In Africa!" Argument.
Fallacy of relative privation (its proper name). 

Arguing that expressing concern about a (relatively) small problem means that the person doesn’t care about any larger problems. A type of Strawman.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppealToWorseProblems

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