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[[Special pleading]] means applying to other people a set of standards that one is not willing to apply to oneself, without offering sufficient grounds, called the ''relevant difference'', to support such exemption. Special pleading is a special case of the double standard, and is one of the most despicable forms of hypocrisy. A political or military leader who urges his subjects (or those under his command) to observe "iron rations" without similarly depriving himself leaves himself open to a charge of special pleading.
[[Special pleading]] means applying to other people a set of standards that one is not willing to apply to oneself, without offering sufficient grounds, called the ''relevant difference'', to support such exemption. Special pleading is a special case of the double standard, and is one of the most despicable forms of hypocrisy. A political or military leader who urges his subjects (or those under his command) to observe "iron rations" without similarly depriving himself leaves himself open to a charge of special pleading.
== Related examples of improper reasoning ==
The following categories of poor reasoning are difficult to classify; some might not wish to classify them as logical fallacies ''per se'', but they are still, in most cases, indefensible:
===Infinite regression===
: ''Main Article: [[Infinite regression]]''
An [[infinite regression]] results when one asserts that a given event caused another, and yet that first event requires another, identical event, to cause ''it.'' The "cyclic universe" model of the origin of the universe is an example of an infinite regression--for what shall we say caused the first among a never-ending series of explosions?
== Logical fallacy and the educational establishment ==
== Logical fallacy and the educational establishment ==