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sin, the crime of Sophistry, and a violation of Natural Law. A person “shifts ground,”
by taking a position in one argument, and then the opposite position in the next argument.
For example, the sophist might immorally charge someone with being immoral for
helping the poor on Day One, and then, on Day Two, the sophist charges the same, or a
different person with being immoral for not helping the poor. The Fallacy of Shifting
and irrational, and unreasonable, to assert that A is true, and then, two hours later, assert
that A is false. However, an Equitable Exception can be taken from be guilty of the
exception to the prohibition against Shifting Ground. With respect to Lawyers, the
Fallacy of Shifting ground is prohibited by the Legal Ethics Rule which prohibits
positional conflicts in front of the same court. In fact, a more strict interpretation of the
positional conflict rule suggests that a Lawyer cannot change his or her basic legal