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Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options
bozhang chen2y10

There is an interesting false logic on the recent Chinese Internet, which is a deliberate satire based on a series of bad realities.
It goes like this: If you have a fish, the bigger the fish, the more bones it has, and we all know that if a fish has many bones, it will have less meat, and if a fish has few meat, it means It is a small fish.
So we get the final logic that if the fish is bigger the fish will be smaller.
We usually use this to satirize people who criticize a certain policy from a single angle, because those who want to defend "big fish" will use "more bones" as evidence. And those who want to criticize "small fish" will attack with "less meat".

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