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## Police officer
A respectable, hardworking person who doesn't act like a thug.
+## The prohibition fallacy
+An informal fallacy in which the effects of something are conflated with the effects of its prohibition.
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## Schrödinger's douchebag
Someone who makes bigoted statements, then decides whether or not they were "just joking/trolling" based on others' approval. This way, they avoid ever admitting to being wrong.