A very common retort when critizising somebody for a reprehensible action (like

A very common retort when critizising somebody for a reprehensible action (like

A very common retort when critizising somebody for a reprehensible action (like selling drugs) is that "If I don't do it, somebody else will". Does this kind of bad reasoning fall into any of the classical categories of argument fallacies?

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