Statement #o3 Discussion

Below is the statement as it appears with the fallacy marked as correct. You can see the totals of most frequent responses to this statement. And after reading the any discussion going on below, you can select your choice(s) for the correct answer. For now, whoever posts each statement can update corrections.

Bill: "Smoking is very unhealthy and leads to all sorts of problems. So take my advice and never start."
Jill: "Well, I certainly don't want to get cancer."
Bill: "I'm going to get a smoke. Want to join me Dave?"
Jill: "Well, I guess smoking can't be that bad. After all, Bill smokes."

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
AKA "You Too Fallacy"
Category: Fallacies of Relevance (Red Herrings) → Ad hominems (Genetic Fallacies)

This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person's claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of "argument" has the following form:

Person A makes claim X.
Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
Therefore X is false.

The fact that a person makes inconsistent claims does not make any particular claim he makes false (although of any pair of inconsistent claims only one can be true-but both can be false). Also, the fact that a person's claims are not consistent with his actions might indicate that the person is a hypocrite but this does not prove his claims are false.

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

867 Total Answer Attempts 35%
305 Correctly Popped Fallacies
562 Incorrectly Un/Popped

Example from LaBossiere's Forty Two Fallacies

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Most Common Responses

305 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
57 - Appeal to Popularity
56 - Appeal to Common Practice
52 - Peer Pressure
34 - Appeal to Authority
22 - Relativist Fallacy
20 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief
20 - Ignoring a Common Cause
19 - Hasty Generalization
19 - Biased Generalization
18 - Special Pleading
16 - Red Herring
16 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem
16 - Genetic Fallacy
16 - Fallacy of Composition
16 - Appeal to Belief
14 - Confusing Cause and Effect
14 - Gambler's Fallacy
12 - Burden of Proof
12 - Misleading Vividness
10 - False Dilemma
10 - Guilt by Association
9 - Fallacy of Division
9 - Poisoning the Well
8 - Appeal to Fear
8 - Ad Hominem
8 - Slippery Slope
8 - Middle Ground
7 - Appeal to Tradition
7 - Appeal to Novelty
6 - Begging the Question
6 - Appeal to Emotion
6 - Post Hoc
3 - Appeal to Flattery
3 - Appeal to Pity
2 - Personal Attack
2 - Appeal to Ridicule
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