Fallacies

1 Begging the Question

Women are allowed to be in the military. But women aren’t allowed to serve in the infantry because it is and always will be a mans job.

2 Ad Hominem

How can you be against cutting school funding? Your kids kids just finished school due to that funding! Only a cold hearted scrooge like you would be for cutting the funding!

3 Equivocation

The sign said “fine for parking here”. So I parked here.

4 Slippery Slope

If you get married young, then it won’t be long before you start having children, which will prevent you from finishing school and getting a good job, then you and your wife will hate each other because you are poor and can’t go on vacations and then you will finally get a divorce poor miserable and with child support payments. So you should not get married at a young age.

5 Straw Man

Right wing activists want to ban gay marriage in america and not issue marriage licenses to gay couples. but these extreme stances are definitely uncalled for so the right wing activists are wrong and gay couples should be left in peace and allowed to do as they please.

6 Tu Quoque

You say I should believe in God and become a christian yet you live exactly the same way I do and do nothing that sets myself apart from you. Therefore your reasoning is invalid and not worth listening to.

7 Non-sequitur

Eating taco bell will make you fat, But eating anything can make you fat. Every time you eat a piece of candy you can get fat. So you should be able to eat taco bell.

8 False Dichotomy

There are only two types of successful people in the world: people who go to college and idiots.

9 Argument from Ignorance

People have been trying to prove that rock music is the best type music around but no one has been able to prove it, therefore rock music is not the best type of music.

10 Red Herring

You may think he stole that pear, but look at how skinny he is! how would you feel if you made him pay for it?

11 Appeal to Authority

Ellen Degeneres said boxer briefs are better than normal underwear, so we should burn all of our normal underwear and go buy boxer briefs immediately.

12 Hasty Generalization

The Coors light I had tasted bad. So all beer tastes bad.

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