Question

You're going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone. A police officer pulls you over and starts to write you a ticket. In desperation, you exclaim, "What about all the other people who were going faster than me? Why didn't you pull them over?" Which logical fallacy are you attempting to use to avoid your ticket?

Answer 1

Answer:

Tu quoque fallacy (appeal to hypocrisy)

Explanation:

This fallacy is known as the 'you too' fallacy. This fallacy is used when a person is trying to accuse the person pointing out his fault for the same crime. He hereby shows the hypocrisy in the accuser. Instead of accepting the blame for the mistake committed, he tries to distribute the blame so as to absolve himself of the crime.

This is what the driver does in this instance. Instead of accepting the fact that he committed an offense, he rather tries to blame the police officer for allowing the drivers who committed the same offense to drive past.