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simpsons alguien quiere pensar en los niños

Use when someone invokes 'the children' to add melodramatic moral panic to an otherwise minor dispute.

What it expresses

An emotional appeal substitutes imagined danger to children for proportionate evidence.

Example

During a debate about changing the office snack shelf, someone jokingly cries, 'Won't somebody please think of the children?'

When not to use it

A policy presents a documented, immediate risk to children; raising their safety is substantive rather than theatrical panic.

• think of the children
• moral panic
• melodrama
• emotional appeal