(February 1, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Nope Wrote: When my children were young I did not allow them to turn the conversation by saying, "Yeah, I did wrong but look at what my siblings did." That type of response was always viewed, by me, as a way to deflect getting into trouble and it never worked. My answer was that it didn't matter what their sisters or brothers did wrong because the topic of the discussion was what that individual child was doing wrong.It's a tu quoque - You did too!
I see the same thing happening here. It would be appropriate for the Christians on this site to say, "That was a crappy thing to do and I condemn any religious person that did it." To add, "But another group also did it also" comes off as trying to justify the vandalism in some way.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
