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Judgmental language is a subset ofred herringfallacies. It employs insulting, compromising orpejorative language to influence the recipient'sjudgment.
Here, the judgmental words are "our very own sons" and "mercenaries", which imply not only professional soldiers but rather soldiers of fortune. This argument is also afalse dilemma: nothing implies that coercion and fear of punishment produces better soldiers than voluntarily, and that a professional army could not be assembled from the nation's own citizens.
This argument combines judgmental language withnon sequitur andappeal to authority.
Judgmental language is related to use ofpejorative language.