Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs

Re:Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ B... by enraged_camel on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:35PM (#22121724)

There's not much to misunderstand, as the fallacy is fairly simple. Indeed, you can take the example shown in the wikipedia article and apply it directly to this topic:

Mozilla makes the argument that young people should consider the ethical issues before taking jobs.

HN user matheweis asserts that Mozilla's actions or past claims are inconsistent with their argument.

Therefore, the reasoning goes, the argument that young people should consider the ethical issues before taking jobs is false.

It should be incredibly clear how this line of reasoning is fallacious and therefore invalid.

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Re:Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ B... by jshevek on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:43PM (#22121799)

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HN user matheweis asserts that Mozilla's actions or past claims are inconsistent with their argument.

Therefore, the reasoning goes, the argument that young people should consider the ethical issues before taking jobs is false.

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This sequence strikes me as non sequitur and strawman. That is how "the reasoning goes" when one actually commits tu quoque, but merely pointing out hypocrisy is not tu quoque.

Edit: It's possible that I have not read all of his comments. I'm only aware of this:

"Mozilla wants young techies to consider ethics in their jobs?

Rich words indeed from the corporation that more than doubled executive pay and then found themselves needing to lay off 70 people to save costs on a restructuring"

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