The other commenter was actually just mixing it up with the broken windows fallacy[0]. Funnily enough, it's a common enough confusion that both of the pages reference each other at the top of the page.

>This article is about the economic parable. For the criminological theory, see Broken windows theory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

ah I see my mistake.