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> That another country is also evil doesn't make what Japan is doing any better. For ease of reference, the non-Latinate name for this flavour of the tu quoque
by JadeNB 7y ago
> That another country is also evil doesn't make what Japan is doing any better.
For ease of reference, the non-Latinate name for this flavour of the tu quoque fallacy seems to be 'whataboutism' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism).
- JadeNB 7y agoI don't mean to complain about downvoting, but, in case the downvotes are based on misinterpretation rather than disagreement: I was not accusing sandworm101 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20327379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20327379) of engaging in a fallacy; rather, I meant to point out that the argument sandworm101 was correctly rebutting corresponded to a named fallacy.