Joe and his supporters try to deflect the damage by pointing out the times his opponents have been caught lying, too this counter accusation implies that Joe’s lie should be excused because of the hypocrisy of those who found it and who dare to even talk about it. Any veteran parent of siblings will know not to fall for this trick.Įxample 2: Joe the Politician has been legitimately caught in a lie.
The brother hopes that the sister’s blatant hypocrisy will absolve him of his crime.
Tu Quoque-Also known as an appeal to hypocrisy, this fallacy translates from the Latin as “you, too.” Known on grade school playgrounds around the world, this false argument distracts by turning around any critique on the one making the critique with the implication that the accuser should not have made the accusation in the first place because it reveals him as a hypocrite-even if the accusation or critique has validity.Įxample 1: “Mom, Joey pushed me!” “Yeah, but Sally pushed me first!” Any sister who has ratted out a brother before knows she will have to deal with an immediate counter attack, claiming that she has perpetrated the same crime she has accused the brother of doing (and more than likely, she has done so). While writers often use analogies effectively to illustrate ideas, a bad analogy can be misleading and even inflammatory.Įxample: “Taxes are like theft.” This statement makes a false analogy because taxes are legal and thus cannot logically be defined as, or even compared to, something illegal. 
Weak/False Analogy-An analogy is a brief comparison, usually to make writing more interesting and to connect with the reader.
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