• jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think it’s an ad hominem when you’re making/influencing legal policies and then violating those rules yourself.

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      6 months ago

      You just defined ad hominem in the same sentence you said it’s not.

      If they are making bad policy, then focus on that because it’s bad. Not because the individual doesn’t actually follow it.

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        If they are making bad policy, then focus on that because it’s bad

        People are and have been.

        Not because the individual doesn’t actually follow it

        When the individual is ignoring any arguments on the basis of an Appeal to Authority “Everyone knows this is wrong” then it’s valid to point out “Then why are you doing it?”

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            None of this is an argument for Homosexuality being wrong or right. If people were saying “she’s having sex with women so sex with women must be okay” then it would be a tu quoque fallacy.

            People are pointing out that shes a huge fucking hypocrite. Hypocrisy by itself isn’t an argument for or against anything, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth calling out.