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To: TobagoJack who wrote (71491)3/5/2011 8:06:07 PM
From: Jacob Snyder7 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 217547
 
<if china is not justified in any of the cross-border engagements since 1949 mentioned by jacob, then israel is not justified in any of the cross-border engagements engaged in since 1947>

My neighbor beats his wife, and gets away with it, so it's OK if I beat my wife.

Is this the Red Herring Fallacy, or the "two wrongs make a right" Fallacy?

Two wrongs make a right: occurs when it is assumed that if one wrong is committed, another wrong will cancel it out. An action is defended, on the grounds that someone else has done something similar.

Red herring: The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent. This Fallacy occurs when a speaker attempts to distract an audience by deviating from the topic at hand by introducing a separate argument which the speaker believes will be easier to speak to.

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