A fork of Rural Dictionary
Working backwards in logic, disregarding the facts in order to support an erroneous conclusion. Motivated reasoning is in contrast to logical reasoning.
I know you're telling me the fact that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, but my motivated reasoning tells me he did.
We invaded Iraq because of 9/11. What we did in Iraq was right. Saddam Hussein was involved in plotting 9/11.
Hey! Do you not have a reason to live either? Yeah!
A play on the word 'treason' that combines 'Tea' (short in this instance for Tea Party Patriot) and 'Reason' (a homonym meaning either: purpose or rationality).
It can be defined as:
A situation in which a citizen of another country is accused of committing an act of treason against the United States of America by a Tea Party Patriot.
Huckabee: Julian Assange should be executed for treason!
Assange: I think you mean Tea-Reason? Perhaps I could interest you in a map, and a dictionary?
What you say when you kick someone off or out of something, because you’re afraid you actually have to get out of bed and do your job.
Krista Vernoff and Shonda Rhimes: we are letting go of Arizona and April for creative reasons
A professional ultimate frisbee team, consisting only of homosexual members.
Hey man, have you heard of reasonable squeeze? We should join.
Meaningless rhetoric used to gain the upper hand in an argument where you have nothing substantial to add.
Ironically most employed in an attempt to end the most combustible & controversial of debates.
Abortion should be outlawed everywhere, for obvious reasons.
Software piracy isn't bad, for obvious reasons.
Adolf Hitler was a model citizen and well-meaning person, for obvious reasons.