Good to know the name, I’ve seen it invoked a few times.
In fact, I had this recently at work where I questioned a decision only for them to retort with one similar characteristic which a prior suggestion of mine shared. This was also a modal fallacy as they only used that one characteristic to come to a conclusion about both.
You also see it all of the time in politics unfortunately, a lot of “yeah but you also…” where we should be hearing good justifications.
If someone tries to throw this at you, remember that it’s an argumentative fallacy, it’s called tu quoque.
Good to know the name, I’ve seen it invoked a few times.
In fact, I had this recently at work where I questioned a decision only for them to retort with one similar characteristic which a prior suggestion of mine shared. This was also a modal fallacy as they only used that one characteristic to come to a conclusion about both.
You also see it all of the time in politics unfortunately, a lot of “yeah but you also…” where we should be hearing good justifications.