casuistic

adjective2

1. •
   Of or related to casuistry, attempting to solve moral dilemmas by application of general rules.
2. •
   Similar to the arguments of casuists, particularly (figurative, derogatory) overly subtle, hair-splitting.

   • These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, "Is a blind man sound?" — 1855