The variation of this fallacy is only if you walked in my shoes, you would change your views.
No true Scotsman is a kind of informal fallacy in which one attempts to rescue a universal generalisation from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample. Rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric i.e. those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group.
Philosophy professor Bradley Dowden explains the fallacy as an ‘ad hoc rescue’ of a refuted generalisation attempt. The following is a simplified rendition of the fallacy:
Person A: ‘No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.’
Person B: ‘But my uncle Angus likes sugar with his porridge.’
Person A: ‘Ah yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.’
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