Fallicies 📓 (231)

Ad hominem: Earlene told Dr.Wills, the pediatrician, that he knew nothing about children because his body doesn’t produce children.

Begging the question: Smoking tobacco will kill you, tobacco is a murderer.

Appeal to consequence: If you do not go to church to worship God and read your bible, you will not go to heaven after you die.

Guilt by association: Takarra was going to stop eating meat, but then she read a book about how vegetarians are animal abusers and decided to still eat meat.

False Dilemma: Drink water daily to be healthy, fast, and alert or drink soda daily and be unhealthy, slow, and tired.

Slippery Slope: Don’t let Payton borrow $5, next she will have you paying her rent and all her utilities including the car note.

Gambler’s Fallacy: Carl and Earlene had 5 boys in a row, his next kid has to be a baby girl .

Post Hoc: The rugby team was losing every game until I bought this new mouth guard. This mouth guard is the reason the rugby team is winning and will win the championship game.

Poisoning the Well: Oh you are taking Professor Peters? He gave me the creeps, be careful there’s a lot of rumors about him.

Questionable cause: When I wake up I always hear the birds chirping, I must be the reason why the birds chirp every morning in my neighborhood.

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