User blog comment:Bigez620/"Food Fright" - Review/@comment-1363526-20131002032527/@comment-24600224-20131002062931

I don't think anyone here criticizes you for hating on their favorite characters and if they are, they should be called out on it. The problem is, you're committing a very common logical fallacy called "special pleading" when you defend one character and throw another under the bus. Special Pleading is when a person applies standards or principles to others while taking herself (or, in this case, those who have a special interest in) to be exempt from the very same principle without providing adequte justification for the exemption. An example of this is, say, a married couple comes home after they both worked all day long in the office. The husband, realizing the the dog needs to be feed and walked, tells his wife to do it because he is tired from working all day without realizing that his wife is in the exact same position as he is.

In this case, you say that Zoey is exempt from criticize while insisting that Courtney is. You hypocritically get angered when people say things like "Zoey deserves to be burned at stake" and yet you imply that Courtney deserves the exact same treatement. You give special exemption status to Zoey  for no apparant reason other than she's your favorite character.

Which is called special pleading.