Argumentum ad connotationem (Wei's Neologisms #−2)

Why I am unimpressed by arguments that rely too heavily on emotive language:

"BART

Dad, I'll trade you this delicious doorstop for your crummy old Danish.

HOMER

(Trading) Done and done.

(Chuckles, then he realizes)

D'oh!"

– The Simpsons, S4E17 "Last Exit to Springfield"

Oxýmōrṓ

Evening Standard What happened when anti-FGM campaigner asked people in the street to sign a petition in favour of mutilating girls 28 October 2013 A Londoner who suffered female genital mutilation has warned that political correctness is hampering the fight to stamp it out after asking people to sign a fake petition in its favour.

Political correctness = oxymoron.

Moral relativism = oxymoron.

Economic warfare

Reuters Kerry: spying row shouldn't cloud U.S.-EU trade talks 5 November 2013 European concerns about alleged electronic eavesdropping by U.S. intelligence should not be allowed to cloud trade talks next week between the United States and the European Union, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.

The US spying on its allies is not merely a security issue. In the setting of trade negotiations, espionage carries potential analogous to criminal insider dealing, constituting an act of economic warfare.