- 1. think of the children (usually imperative) (usually as an interjection) An appeal to suspend rational consideration of an issue owing to its presumptive negative effects on the young and impressionable, usually in ironic or mocking parody of another's argumentum ad passiones or moral panic. A sincere plea to consider the young. Source: ecdict
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