The person is saying to you that he doesn't care with behaviors or situations that doesn't have an direct impact on his life. IE, the issue has entered his life in some way and has some effect on him.įor starters, this is a hypocritical argument. When attacking the conclusion, you can point out that by discussing it with you, he does "care about it" to some sense. When attacking the antecedent, you can take the extreme position that everything affects everything, so "it doesn't affect me" can never be true. However, if he cares about those things, you've show his statement is false for him: it's possible for something not to affect him but for him to still care about it. Most people have fundamental concepts of morality: you might ask him if he cares about people starving in Africa or other suffering in the world. You can attack the conclusion of this argument by showing that he cares about things that don't affect him. You can attack the antecedent of this argument by showing that the issue actually DOES affect him, either directly or indirectly. Simply saying "I don't care about it" is probably the truth. He's not saying "it doesn't affect me, therefore it's false ". This isn't a true-or-false statement, so you really can't apply the concept of logical fallacy to it. If something really doesn't affect me, there's no reason I should care about it.
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