It’s a fallacy I have yet to name, but basically if I told the majority of people:
> Don’t walk through a minefield, it’s very dangerous.
You can bet a massive majority of them ***would not*** say:
> Well not all land mines explode!
No, they don’t, not *all* of them. There are duds but that doesn’t mean it’s now a great idea to lay land mines throughout your society and it’s suddenly “safe.”
Same goes with race.
> We shouldn’t allow foreigners here, it will have detrimental effects on our society.
> Yeah well I know (insert ethnicity) guy and he’s great!
> Don’t walk through a minefield, it’s very dangerous.
You can bet a massive majority of them ***would not*** say:
> Well not all land mines explode!
No, they don’t, not *all* of them. There are duds but that doesn’t mean it’s now a great idea to lay land mines throughout your society and it’s suddenly “safe.”
Same goes with race.
> We shouldn’t allow foreigners here, it will have detrimental effects on our society.
> Yeah well I know (insert ethnicity) guy and he’s great!
Survivorship bias.