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title: "Argumentum ad Terrorism"
excerpt: "It's only terrorism if government isn't the one doing it."
author: madphilosopher
tags: [fallacies statism]
comments: true
image:
  feature: generous-thief.png
  credit: Jon Roelofs
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A version of the "special pleading" fallacy by which one uses different terms to apply to categorically equivalent behavior in order to elicit different responses from audiences.

> "Our military has to go perform \"tactical psyops\" (bomb civilians) over in that country because terrorists are doing \"terrorism\" (bombing civilian targets) over there.


Add Joey's Argumentum ad Terrorism
Add Joey's Argumentum ad Terrorism
