Often that fallacy is argued on the basis of artificially reduced complexity. "Some first order actions can be justified by higher order danger" is often trans

Often that fallacy is argued on the basis of artificially reduced complexity. "Some first order actions can be justified by higher order danger" is often transliterated as "this first order action is justified by higher order danger" precisely because it drops all the subtlety and pretense for higher-order reasoning that the original speaker intended as an unspoken follow-up. People often seem to allow others only the luxury of starting a thought, but never finishing it.