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Esquivalience

The wilful avoidance of one's official responsibilities.
Trap streets serve a purpose, but are also a blatant esquivalience towards the navigating public.

Esquivalience

The act of putting a fake word in your dictionary to trick others who copy your dictionary into admitting it without knowing it, like how New Oxford American Dictionary put in the word "Esquivalience" into their dictionary, and when dictionary.com had that word, New Oxford American Dictionary could report them for copying their dictionary
Human 1: Wow did you hear about how New Oxford American Dictionary tricked dictionary.com into admitting that they copied their dictionary?

Human 2: No, I did not! What happened?

Human 1: Well New Oxford American Dictionary esquivalienced them!

Human 2: Really? Wow!

Human 1: Yes, and after proving that they were copying, New Oxford American Dictionary could shut down dictionary.com after absorbing all their assets, by making them file for bankruptcy! Then, New Oxford American Dictionary found the owner of dictionary.com and sued him for millions, causing him to have to pay up his daughter's college fund, his and his wife's retirement fund, their pensions, their 401ks, their savings, and the deed to their house, causing him to declare personal bankruptcy! Then, they found him hungry on the street, and hired 4 thugs to beat him up, leading to him going to the hospital, and was only half-treated due to his lack of insurance and lack of savings! Then, he spent 14 years as an indentured servant to pay off the remainder of his lawsuit, and finally, 3 more years to pay back his hospital bills! He died homeless, starving to death, along with his wife and 2 children who also ended up dying, after being unable to afford food.

Human 2: That'll teach 'em not to copy off of New Oxford American Dictionary! Copyright for the win!
Esquivalience by StrattoniteGamer February 26, 2021

esquivalienceesquivalience 

Two copyright traps are better than one.
I am evil and willl put in a billion esquivalienceesquivalience traps in my dictionary book.

false equivalence 

When used on Reddit or other social media, a claim of false equivalence is not, as one might expect, pointing to a fallacy of inconsistency. Instead, the term is indignant shorthand indicating that the respondent is offended that someone had the audacity to make a comparison that illustrated how ridiculous, unreasonable, and/or stupid the thing they said really was.
Comparing Hitler to Stalin is a false equivalence.

False equivalence 

Used when a liberal has absolutely no comeback for your undeniable facts and comparisons. Employed when they have no rebuttal and completely run out of feelings.
Well thats just false equivalence. Explain to me how it is. It just is so your facts are now rendered useless to me
False equivalence by Qrut September 17, 2020

Fallacy of moral equivalence

When you make a comparison between two things and the person you're tries to argue that you're trying to claim that there is a moral equivalence between one of the things you're talking about and the comparison.
Iam "Fallacy of moral equivalence is such a lazy argument. I'm not saying that you are like Jesus and you're fans are like lepers. What I'm saying is this: Sometimes, in life, we can't always be for people what they want (or even need) us to be. And I see that it pains you a great deal. And that's ok. And I can relate to that. Not because I'm like Jesus..."

Hym "But because I'm better than Jesus. Like, 2 maybe 3 times better. At least. I'm obviously not a filthy leper. If that were the comparison I were making than I would OBVIOUSLY be God because I'm the one watching the thing happened. But then I would be a filthy abomination..."

Iam "I wasn't fin..."

Hym "You were finished. I doubt you even had a point."

Iam "I was going to say that I understand the feeling and that you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. I think back on my life and can see that if I changed maybe 3 things everything would be so radically different that I wouldn't even be the same entity. So, if the present is the future's past, you don't really have to do all that much. Just 3 things."

Hym "That's the problem with the rest of these morons. They're trying to do too much. And they're obnoxious. And they don't give me enough of their things. Everyone needs to give me their things. I need them more than they do."
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murderhobo 

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Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
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DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
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