> Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.
Oh?
You see, I was not charging the OP with hypocrisy. To the contrary -- I think that the desire makes sense and would be nice to see happen. But I just wonder about how the messy details of that would work. I mean, we have certainly failed to break up other industries because they compromised the antitrust apparatus through regulatory capture. To not engage with the elephant in the room of regulatory capture (when talking about antitrust) is to not talk about antitrust at all.
Oh?
You see, I was not charging the OP with hypocrisy. To the contrary -- I think that the desire makes sense and would be nice to see happen. But I just wonder about how the messy details of that would work. I mean, we have certainly failed to break up other industries because they compromised the antitrust apparatus through regulatory capture. To not engage with the elephant in the room of regulatory capture (when talking about antitrust) is to not talk about antitrust at all.