{"id":5081,"date":"2017-02-16T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:11:28","slug":"tu-quoqu-erm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5081","title":{"rendered":"Tu Quoqu&#8230;erm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?attachment_id=5082\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5082\" src=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2017\/02\/mattdamon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2017\/02\/mattdamon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2017\/02\/mattdamon-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2017\/02\/mattdamon.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arguments from hypocrisy can legitimately target a number of features of a speaker&#8217;s case.\u00c2\u00a0 They may show that a proposal is really impractical, or they may show that things are more complicated than the speaker&#8217;s pronouncements make it seem.\u00c2\u00a0 Or they, in ad hominem fashion, may show that the speaker lacks the ethotic standing (has a moral right) to lecture us about X, Y, or Z.\u00c2\u00a0 But they usually are irrelevant &#8212; that&#8217;s why they have a name for the fallacy, the<em> tu quoque.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One, I think uncontroversial, constraint on these (even fallacious) versions of arguments from inconsistency\/hypocrisy is that the two events must be actually inconsistent.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, no hypocrisy.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely, an argument from hypocrisy needs for there to be hypocrisy, first.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2017\/02\/16\/matt-damon-not-believer-walls\/\">Jerome Hudson over at Breitbart<\/a> with his clearly newsworthy report on Matt Damon&#8217;s apparent hypocrisy:<\/p>\n<header class=\"articleheader\">\n<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Great Wall&#8221; Star: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a fan of walls&#8221;<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, how is this news? Moreover, I don&#8217;t see the hypocrisy.\u00c2\u00a0 The Matt Damon movie is about a wall keeping out lizard monsters and what look like sword-wielding dragons.\u00c2\u00a0 The Trump wall isn&#8217;t designed for that purpose, no matter how racist you are.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments from hypocrisy can legitimately target a number of features of a speaker&#8217;s case.\u00c2\u00a0 They may show that a proposal is really impractical, or they may show that things are more complicated than the speaker&#8217;s pronouncements make it seem.\u00c2\u00a0 Or they, in ad hominem fashion, may show that the speaker lacks the ethotic standing (has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tu Quoqu&#8230;erm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque","tag-ad-hominem-tu-quoque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}