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I think that fallacy should be called the anthropic fallacy (I don't think the fallacy has a name yet).

The anthropic principle is that even though the number of planets hospitable to life is tiny the probability that humanity evolved on a planet that is hospitable to human life is 100%. The examples you gave are symmetrical.



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