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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
That doesn't make it sensible to state that you dislike people saying "other people do it too" in an attempt to lessen the severity of an accusation, and then on the next line... Say "Labour did it too!" about an accusation against the Tories. Its either relevant / valid always, or never... Otherwise there's some phrase about having cake and also eating said cake or something like that. And not being able to.
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I'm not going to speak for Bits, but as I interpreted it, I read it as he was talking about himself and gave full a construction on his different points of view... I didn't take it to be for arguments sake? Just that he agreed/disagreed with various points, in multiple ways... Otherwise I'd agree with you in general, it's undermining the other point during argument.