Quote:You know, this "both sides do it" card is really getting old.
Indeed, because it is only a common logical fallacy; tu quoque,/appeal to hypocrisy. I may not use your faults/crimes to excuse, minimise or dismiss mine.
.WARNING: Godwin's Law about to be invoked.: At the Nuremberg war trials ,Nazi war criminals such as Herman Goring tried [unsuccessfully] to use that defence; EG "The allies bombed Dresden--and what about the way you treat black people in the US?" (referring to the holocaust)
