Invoking an exemption for one's own case without a principled ground for the exception.
The test is whether the exemption would be granted to anyone else in the same position. If the principle applies only to the person invoking it, it is not a principle.
In practice
- A manager who missed the deadline explains the circumstances, having dismissed the identical explanation from a supplier in March.
- A department that argues its work is too unusual for the standard reporting has made a claim every department could make.
- Further reading
- Wikipedia
- Subject
- Decision-making & Reasoning
- Essay
- The catalogue of predictable errors