[Tyedye]

I have a question about a possible logical fallacy. I know some people and have heard others use this type of logic or illogic before and it seems very illogical to me.
Example:
Perfection can't be achieved so there's no point in working towards it.
You can't get something 100% clean so why try.

The basic premise seems to be that since you can't achieve the extreme of your goal there is no point in working hard at it.

It seems to clash with my logic of:
I can't get something 100% clean, but I will get as close to that as possible.
I can't achieve total perfection, but I am happy with getting as close as I can and will work towards it.

What's wrong here?

[kindachaotic]

Perfection really doesn't exist.

Your version of logic seems reality based...to me anyway.

Welcome to PC!

[Nihil]

This one is the closest I could find, but there may be another.

Ignoratio elenchi, also known as irrelevant conclusion,[1] is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid, but fails nonetheless to address the issue in question.

Actually, upon further reading, I found this. Which seems to fit exactly:

The perfect solution fallacy is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it were implemented. This is a classic example of black and white thinking, in which a person fails to see the complex interplay between multiple component elements of a situation or problem, and as a result, reduces complex problems to a pair of binary extremes.

Logic is fascinating, isn't it?

hey.

welcome to pc..

[Timgt5]

In the cases sited above it is sort of like those Dog shows in which each breed of dog is judged against a set of standards of perfection for that breed. No individual dog reaches every point (there are many) but some do more than others. So perfection while not a possibilty in most things, does give us a measure of how we do as individuals, the thing with being perfect is to focus not on reaching it, but how much improvement we see each time we engage a task.

or to quote Drummer/philosopher Neal Peart-"...the point of the journey is not to arrive"