English 1A
Holper
FALLACIES REVIEW
1) Candace is interested in reading advertisements
carefully; therefore, she will be an advertising executive.
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2) Skinny people are all type A personalities. They are obsessively neat, overly boring,
and have no life outside of their overpaid, overworked careers.
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3) A significant number of Americans are now voting
Green, so politicians of all stripes should begin to pay attention to
environmental issues, if they want to be in tune with the American public.
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4) If we get involved in a war in Iraq, we will go
to war with Iran, Syria, Sudan, Egypt--and all this will clearly lead to WWIII.
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5) Just as the Romans witnessed the collapse of the
family unit at the end of their empire, so America in the 20th Century is
witnessing the breakup of our families.
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6) Since having your children listen to music is of
little importance, we should not bother funding early listening incentives in
schools.
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7) Many peace activists in the USA argue the same
positions that the Dalai Lama supports--and he won the Nobel Peace Prize--so
obviously their ideas are worth listening to.
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8) If 66 percent of Americans want to see corporate
reform, based on what we have seen from Enron executives and the like, then the
government should begin to craft laws to punish corporate crime.
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9) Because George Bush, Jr., has wept in public, as
a result of the deaths on 9/11, he's obviously a good president.
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10) There are only two ways to get to San Francisco
from Eureka--you can take Highway 101 or go over 299 and go south
on
5.
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11) If we
were to take the computer components in the marketplace and combine them, we're
going to have a terrific computer.
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12) Americans vote an average of six times in their
lives; given this, if you're in the 20-30 years old age bracket, you should
have voted a minimum of one time.
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13) A large percentage of inmates in prisons today
were spanked; thus, we should stop spanking our children, if we care about
their future.
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14) Most Americans agree that we
should turn Iraq into a parking lot; therefore, we should urge President Bush
to stop risking our troops' lives and to start dropping nuclear weapons.
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15) Because I have not been pulled over for running
any red lights today, the increased fines for traffic violations have obviously
been effective.
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16) We know that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had an
affair with his secretary; thus, his critics were right that the WPA (Works
Project Administration) was at best an immoral attempt to bring the country out
of the Depression.
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17) The problem with high school students today is
that they all involved in violence one way or another—they don't simply have to
be schoolyard shooters, they can be gang members or watch too much violent
TV. And as a result, our society is
raising up a new generation of hyperviolent kids.
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18) If a person doesn't vote on a repeated basis,
this shows that he/she has little interest in politics. Thus, we are correct to call such a person
uninvolved in the American political process, as it now stands.
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