"Oh yeah? Your guy did the same bad things *MY* guy did!"
This argument does not justify your guy doing the bad things."
The word being debated here is "tyrant" because our FRiend FLT-bird loves to claim that Lincoln was a "tyrant".
The problem is that word "tyrant" can mean pretty much anything -- a war-ship's captain might be labeled a "tyrant" because he runs a tight ship, and makes his crew practice their drills over & over again, even after they could do them blind-folded.
In an Army, it's sometimes said that you want your troops to be more afraid of their sergeants than they are of the enemy.
So the word "tyrant" can mean pretty much anything.
In this particular case, I've simply compared the "tyrant" Lincoln to that paragon of enlightened civility, CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis and I've discovered -- amazingly -- that pretty much everything Lincoln did to earn Confederates' sobriquet "tyrant" was also done by Davis.
So how can the same acts magically make Lincoln a "tyrant" but not also make Davis a "tyrant"?
I think everybody well understands why.
Notice, in this quote Jefferson Davis threatens extermination of Confederates.
How is that not tyranical?
Thank God, it was all a bluff.