Your logical fallacy is tu quoque
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Your logical fallacy is tu quoque
When the other party justifies its proposal using fairness standards you have publicly committed yourself to in the past, you have a problem. You must either walk away from the standards (and look like a hypocrite) or debate their application to the present case—a move that subtly moves you toward the other side’s position.
G. Richard Shell • Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
If you think your creed essential to morals why do you not make it a test for these things?” “We once did make it a test for these things,” said MacIan smiling, “and then you told us that we were imposing by force a faith unsupported by argument. It seems rather hard that having first been told that our creed must be false because we did use tests,
... See moreG. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your ... See more
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.