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Terms like Ad Hominem, tu quoque or Strawman should only be used when talking about debate, but not in a debate.
Accusing a person of any of these things often becomes a kind of "Ad hominem" in and of itself, as you're basically accusing the other person has poor logic, while not really resolving anything.
And it's very easy to misfire on a fallacies. There's a fine line between "Strawman" and "taking things to their logical conclusion". The former is indeed a fallacy, but the latter is a valid debate technique, going back to Socrates.
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