Fallacy of relative privation
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Appeal to worse problems is a logical fallacy which attempts to suggest that the opponent's argument should be ignored because there are more important problems in the world - despite the fact that these issues are completely unrelated to the subject under discussion.
Perhaps the best-known example of this fallacy is the response "There are children starving in Africa!" (with the implication that any issue less serious than that isn't worthy of discussion).