Statement #o5 Discussion

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Peter: "Based on the arguments I have presented, it is evident that it is morally wrong to use animals for food or clothing."
Bill: "But you are wearing a leather jacket and you have a roast beef sandwich in your hand! How can you say that using animals for food and clothing is wrong!"

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

1,238 Total Answer Attempts 57%
705 Correctly Popped Fallacies
533 Incorrectly Un/Popped

Example from LaBossiere's Forty Two Fallacies

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Most Common Responses

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

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