in seeking to make a point of hypocrisy and bias - that diverts from the original point instead of refuting it, thus it has no merit. 'xyz is also doing bad thi

in seeking to make a point of hypocrisy and bias - that diverts from the original point instead of refuting it, thus it has no merit. 'xyz is also doing bad things' just gives us n+1 of xyz, but says nothing about xyz.