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>weaken your ability to authentically criticize violations abroad It does no such thing. Being a hypocrite does not impact the correctness or incorrectness of
by Karunamon 6y ago
>weaken your ability to authentically criticize violations abroad
It does no such thing. Being a hypocrite does not impact the correctness or incorrectness of what you're saying (which is why the tu quoque fallacy is a fallacy), doubly so when we're talking about entirely different categories of abuses that invalidate the hypocrisy charge anyways.
- Barrin92 6y agocorrectness isn't what's relevant in (geo)politics. What matters is being able to influence others and get your interests across. And on that front being a hypocrite matters, both domestically as well as internationally. Listing off fallacies is great in internet discussions, but it's not how the world works. To be honest it's also not really how internet discussions work any more because everyone's grown sick of it.