I love Bors!
Of course, the crucial variable is the viability of an alternative.
Society? Not so muchâŚ
A car? Maybe, depending on your circumstancesâŚ
Apple? Anyone who wants to compel me to use that shit can go piss up a rope.
Itâs not crucial at all, I think. The implicit ad hominem attack is always invalid. Go to hell, gotcha man.
(Not you Kimmo. The dude in the cartoon.)
In this case itâd be a Tu Quoque fallacy.
Is that a subset?
Tu Quoque means âYou as wellâ and refers to trying to invalidate someoneâs argument because theyâre a hypocrite, even though them being a hypocrite has no bearing on the truth of their argument.
Yes, I think itâs a subset of ad hominem, because the implicit argument is that your opinion is invalid because you are a bad person. Not like it matters.
Tu quoque is so bogus.
Consider someone dying of lung cancer advising you to quit smoking.
Well, itâs crucial to whether the quoquery has any validity whatsoever⌠itâs only really hypocrisy if you have a viable choice to avoid participating in the practice youâre decrying.
Yeh, we get it: Everyoneâs an hypocrite.
But hypocrisy canât make you wrong to decry it.
I dunno⌠seems to me thatâs the perfect person to advise you on that issue, cause who would know better than someone dying of lung cancer (says the daughter of someone who died of lung cancer).
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