A simple guide to "Tu Quoque"

[MineralMan]

This often-used logical error is commonly seen in discussions about religion. One person will say something critical about some religious group or principal. Then, rather that respond with a logical rebuttal, another person will say, "But you said...." And so the spirit of "tu quoque" is carried on apace.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. Yeah, but what about those Atheists in Boston who pushed an old lady down the stairs...

...then stole her dentures to eat pineapple pizza and drink diet root beer while listening to Duran Duran at impossibly high volume?

[MineralMan]

2. I'll see your Boston atheist and raise you one Pennsylvania pedophilic priest.

So there!

[trotsky]

3. See? Both sides are the same!

Why can't we all just get along?!?

[MineralMan]

4. Knock off the kibitzing, OK? You want dealt in for the next hand?

Can you make the nut?

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. You know who else likes dealing hands?

Capitalists.

So there.

[Mariana]

5. To be fair, the Boston Atheists did something much worse

then push an old lady down the stairs, steal her dentures to eat pineapple pizza and drink diet root beer while listening to Duran Duran at impossibly high volume. Much, much worse.

They expelled a member for being an asshole, after which he promptly proved to everyone that he is an asshole by falsely accusing them of violating his First Amendment right to free speech, when they did no such thing.