recall

← recall

moving the goalposts termsaying

changing the criteria after they've been met

You answer their question, they pivot to a new requirement that wasn't part of the original ask. Defense: name it. 'I think we're moving the goalposts — the original question was X, and I addressed that. The new question is different.'

aliases: goalpost shifting, shifting goalposts

topics: rhetoric, frame-control

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