Comments on: Tu quoque: the logical fallacy Joseph Muscat has used as a defensive device for the 20 years I’ve had experience of him

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:35:57 +0000

@Tabatha White

And risk that the LP hoi polloi and most of their leaders would think that you are speaking Chinese, not Latin?

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:39:34 +0000

I’m sure the only thing that will prevent reporters/ interviewers from rushing in to use the term is the pronunciation.

You’d better simplify: “Too kwo kwe.”

By: Wayne Hewitt

Wayne Hewitt — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:57:42 +0000

If the law courts judge according to this way of thinking, no one would be in prison and criminals would be lose to do as they please in anarchy.

e.g.
‘I should not be imprisoned for murder, since other people killed too.’

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 03:37:21 +0000

It is also a sign of gross insecurity.
Can’t answer a question if he has no answer, so he either answers with another question or deviates from the subject.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 02:46:45 +0000

In simpler language that even the most simple followers of the MLP/LP camp would understand:

i) Two wrongs do not make a right

ii) Because an abuse had allegedly been committed before by someone else that does not justify that Joseph Muscat & Co repeat what they acknowledge to have been an abuse.

By: Matthew S

Matthew S — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:27:51 +0000

In reply to ciccio.

That concluding line is quite extraordinary.

The Times butchered Lawrence Gonzi prior to the election while fawning over Joseph Muscat.

Six months down the line, they’re starting to sound like they have already lost faith in Muscat.

It’s a good editorial but can someone teach Times of Malta that ‘pick him up’ is correct and ‘pick up him’ is incorrect? There is some atrocious grammar in that article.

By: Lawrence Attard

Lawrence Attard — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:17:10 +0000

The ‘tu quoque’ argument is catching, fast. It is ubiquitous among comments submitted by Labour lackeys to timesofmalta’s comments-board.

By: curious

curious — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:05:18 +0000

It is not only Joseph Muscat who is using this form of argument. Is he giving instructions to all his deputies to do the same?

Today I watched a repeat of Iswed fuq l-Abjad and Toni Abela was constantly using et tu quoque. It makes you mad up to a point that you switch channels.

I don’t think that is the desired effect that does him credit because you simply stop listening to what he says.

By: frank

frank — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:07:07 +0000

It is also pertinent to point out that whenever he uses this reply, he is automatically admitting to whatever he was accused of.

By: il-Ginger

il-Ginger — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:06:08 +0000

Whenever Joseph Muscat uses this argument-stopper, I think of him saying “Big deal, he does it too! Are you holding me to a higher standard than him or you? Who do you think I am, the Prime minister?”