what about the children

A form of think of the children — An appeal to suspend rational consideration of an issue owing to its presumptive negative effects on the young and impressionable; usually in ironic or mocking parody of another's argumentum ad passiones or moral panic.

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  1. alternativeAlternative form of think of the children.
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