Inducting this lesson only to the most convenient level for your argument is intellectually dishonest to the point that I really hope you understand, deep down, that you are playing semantic games and don't actually believe this argument.
Don't you understand that there are many people who, deep down, feel that destroying the fossil fuel industry is an absolute imperative, consequences be damned? For example, here's one in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454580
