originated from tyfrxcis on tik tok. Similar to the phrase “you did your big one” meaning good job/ good shit
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Get the serving cunt mug.A logical fallacy that you don't just accidentally commit, but actively cultivate and deploy because its flawed conclusion directly benefits you, validates your identity, or protects your ego. It's reasoning as a personal bodyguard, hired to defend your pre-existing beliefs or interests, no matter how intellectually dishonest its methods. You'll cling to a post hoc ergo propter hoc if it makes your lucky socks seem genius, or embrace a no true Scotsman to dismiss critics of your in-group.
Example: "His go-to self-serving fallacy was false equivalence. 'Sure, I exaggerated my resume, but everyone massages the truth! It's just like a politician using spin!' He'd built a flawed moral equation where his deception was just a harmless industry standard, neatly letting himself off the hook."
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Get the Self-Serving Fallacy mug.The deliberate interpretation, selection, or even manipulation of scientific information to support a pre-determined personal, political, or financial goal. This ranges from cherry-picking studies that favor your product to funding research designed to produce friendly results. It's not just bias; it's the active enlistment of the scientific veneer as a mercenary in your personal campaign, dressing up self-interest in a lab coat.
*Example: "The CEO's presentation was a masterpiece of self-serving science. He highlighted the one internal study showing a potential benefit of their supplement, presented it with glossy graphs, and buried the ten independent studies showing no effect in an appendix written in 8-point font. The science wasn't a search for truth; it was a PR asset."*
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Get the Self-Serving Science mug.The subconscious psychological engine that drives us to interpret information, attribute causes, and remember events in ways that flatter our self-image and protect our self-esteem. We attribute our successes to skill and effort (internal factors) and our failures to bad luck or external circumstances. It's the brain's auto-tune for life's recording, making you always sound just a little bit more in tune and talented than you actually were.
Example: "When he aced the project, it was due to his brilliant strategic mind. When he botched the presentation, it was because the projector was faulty, the audience was tired, and he had a mild headache. That's self-serving bias: the internal narrator of his life story is a shameless, flattering publicist hired by his own ego."
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Get the Self-Serving Bias mug.The craft of constructing logical-sounding arguments with the sole purpose of arriving at a conclusion that serves your interests, using logic not as a tool for discovery but as a weapon for justification. You start with the desired endpoint ("I am correct/I deserve this") and work backwards, selecting only the premises and logical rules that build a path to that end, discarding any that lead elsewhere.
Example: "His self-serving logic for taking the last slice of pizza: 'I paid more into the tip. The person who contributes more to the communal fund has earned a greater share of the communal resource. This is basic distributive justice. Also, I'm still growing.' He'd used a twisted form of contractual logic to justify his gluttony."
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Self-Serving Logic mug.The performance of being coldly, dispassionately rational in situations where that rationality conveniently aligns with your desires, while abandoning that rigor in situations where it doesn't. You'll do a complex cost-benefit analysis to prove why you should buy the new gadget, but will use a gut feeling to dismiss the same analysis when it suggests you should apologize to a friend you wronged.
Example: "Her self-serving rationality was transparent: she spent three hours comparing CPU benchmarks to justify the expensive laptop she wanted for gaming ('It's the rational choice for long-term value!'). Yet, when her partner suggested comparing grocery prices to save money, it was suddenly 'an exhausting over-optimization of life.' Rationality was her servant, not her master."
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