In the following, discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions; identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar.Marina tells her children not to smoke, but she smokes herself.
What will be an ideal response?
Here once again we find her not practicing what she preaches. But this is an inconsistency between word and deed, not between deed and deed or between word and word. She would be guilty of treating relevantly similar cases in a dissimilar way if, for instance, she told her children not to smoke cigarettes but to smoke cigars, if that can be imagined. Note: The issue here is her treatment of the cases; if her children were to reject her advice, they commit an ad hominem (Chapter 6).
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