Perfectionism straw-man
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About
The perfectionism straw-man is any argument which rebuts efforts to achieve some goal by stating the goal as the achievement of a perfect end-state which cannot realistically be achieved. It is essentially replacing a realistic goal with a straw-man goal of perfection; it can also be seen as moving the goalposts infinitely far away.
A goal of reducing evil, for example, becomes a goal of eliminating all evil.