Ethics and Values / Unit 1 Ethics 014 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Special Pleading
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The idea
Special pleading exempts a favored case — most often your own — from a standard you hold everyone else to, without a relevant difference.
In practice
A driver fumes at lane-cutters, then cuts the same lane because she is running late. Every driver in the lane is running late.
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