10 examples of the worst falla

10 Examples of the Worst Kinds of Fallacies

Legalizing marijuana will mean increased availability, leading to increased drug use by teenagers, more addiction, more drug-related crime, more deaths of young people, the destruction of our public school system, and eventually the collapse of our society.

-Republican platform on the issue of legalizing marijuana.

The "slippery slope" of non-automatic consequences is clear here: increased availability, use, crime, and death, leading to destruction of the schools and society. And with each step down the slope, the consequences are more dire, but the causal connection is more tenuous. The point is that we should decide the question of legalizing drugs on its own merits, and not on the fear of a remote (and unlikely) result such as the collapse of society.

“If you love your family, you'll buy this new stealth security system.”

-Security salesman’s statement while giving a free demonstration at my home on 2/20/01.

The claim only has two options: either the consumer buy the security system, or the consumer does not love his/her family. But, of course, there are many others: the cons

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It looks like a question-even a profound question-but it is ultimately unanswerable because it is based on some hidden piece of nonsense. To be so complex, God requires an even more complex designer.

Let's begin with the bad news for me: even if I do stop smoking, I am going to die one day. Still, some people might consider the very mention of death as a scare tactic, even though there is plenty of evidence that smoking does impair your health and shorten your life expectancy. “We certainly have a lot of doctors. Then Bentsen, in a famous retort that was the most telling moment of the debate, said to Quayle, "I knew Jack Kennedy.

Ad Hominem

“Why would you want to hear him speak? He's a liberal who doesn't care about anything except saving trees and making big government.

Pseudo-Question

To have designed the universe, God must be more complex than anything in the universe.

“We actually filtrate the transfer factor out of the colostrum,” says one man.

“Excellent question,” says its representative. “We have breadth of exposure here — in depression, headache, pain control, learning disabilities,” he says.

-- Sam Kazman, General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute (Washington).

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