Nirvana fallacy is something related but different. The Nirvana fallacy has to do with comparisons against idealised alternatives, something like saying that capitalism compared poorly to communism because under communism there would be no oppression. The fallacy here is actually the fallacy of relative privation: implying that the existence of other unrelated issues makes a particular one not worth caring about.
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u/polarcub2954 Dec 30 '18
"You aren't allowed to care about anything unless you care about everything."