The cringiest hill to die on might be the hill of exaggerated moral panic.
There are about 931283918982 more important issues than someone being offended at seeing a dog in close proximity at a place where you have an opinion that they shouldn't be.
As long as your pet doesn't come in contact with my food or defecate near it, you really should focus on more important things in life.
The expectation that other people follow some basic rules of decorum is foundational to a functioning society.
If you say that petty anti-social behavior is off limits because there are bigger problems, you are ceding the decisions about how society functions to people that make bad, anti-social choices.
Please don't post duplicate comments like this, or just post the name of a fallacy as a response. It lacks substance and detracts from the kind of respectful conversation we're hoping for on HN.
Sorry Tom. I apologize to the moderators and other posters and will attempt to only post high quality discussion moving forward.
I notice that my initial comments are generally high quality but that I feel compelled to respond to everything and something about the increased volume, the thing I'm responding to not being directly something I picked from 30 different articles I read, and the inherent sub-current of challenge to my sometimes obstinate initial comments causes me to get defensive and snippy, and I need to work on that. A simple fix is to not respond to responses, but the edifying fix is to think about why I respond this way (inferiority complex when reading and commenting with generally higher than average internet users and/or not wanting to look stupid in front of the brainy computer people, possibly) to consider this as my bias, and to attempt to counteract it.
We have limited time and limited number of problems we can address.
It's only natural to prioritize them and displays a higher level of critical thinking than pointing an argument you don't like and trying to pin some made up fallacy on it.
There are about 931283918982 more important issues than someone being offended at seeing a dog in close proximity at a place where you have an opinion that they shouldn't be.
As long as your pet doesn't come in contact with my food or defecate near it, you really should focus on more important things in life.