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Special Pleading: committed by applying a double standard exemplified in choice of words.
Special Pleading (double standard) - Applying a standard to another that is different from a standard applied to oneself.
Special Pleading, in which the writer creates a universal principle, then insists that principle does not for some reason apply to the issue at hand.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)Argument in which the speaker deliberately ignores aspects that are unfavourable to their point of view.
The argument defends a position by claiming that the opponent lacks the necessary perspective (experiences or credentials) to appreciate the position (or the arguments in support of it). This lack allegedly makes the opponent unqualified to critique the position... [t]his extreme version of Special Pleading is a tactic often used to argue that no action can be judged morally wrong, since no one has the perspective to be able to judge another person's moral code... [e.g.] 'My opponent can't know what's best for our fair community. He wasn't born and raised here, like I was.'
'You aren't like me, so you do not even have a right to think about or hold opinions on my plight'... [t]he fallacy of Special Pleading presupposes that some differences are so great that the human capacity of empathy cannot cross them.
[A] form of inconsistency in which the reasoner doesn't apply [their] principles consistently…[T]he fallacy of applying a general principle to various situations but not applying it to a special situation that interests the arguer even though the general principle properly applies to that special situation, too.
Argument in which the speaker deliberately ignores aspects that are unfavourable to their point of view.
Special Pleading, in which the writer creates a universal principle, then insists that principle does not for some reason apply to the issue at hand.
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