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by RobotToaster 6 days ago
Highlighting hypocrisy isn't whataboutism.
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Highlighting hypocrisy like this is calling out the fallacy of Proving Too Much: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G5eMM3Wp3hbCuKKPE/proving-to...

In short: if your argument supports the conclusion you want but also supports conclusions that are absurd, it's probably not correct.