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If someone tries to throw this at you, remember that it's an argumentative fallacy, it's called tu quoque.
Good to know the name, I've seen it invoked a few times.
In fact, I had this recently at work where I questioned a decision only for them to retort with one similar characteristic which a prior suggestion of mine shared. This was also a modal fallacy as they only used that one characteristic to come to a conclusion about both.
You also see it all of the time in politics unfortunately, a lot of "yeah but you also..." where we should be hearing good justifications.