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Special Pleading

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Applying a standard to others while exempting oneself, without relevant grounds for the exemption.

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"Merging late is reckless — though when I do it, it's efficient."

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Near-miss: relevant differences justify different treatment; that's not pleading, that's the rule's own logic. The fallacy is the exemption without the difference.

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