Question

Identify each of the fallacies below-- If you guys can tell me why or underline dead giveaways, that would be helpful! If you can't, that's fine. Thank you!!

Fallacies* to choose from: Hasty generalization, Post hoc, Slippery slope, Weak analogy, Appeal to authority, Ad populum, Ad hominem and tu quoque, Appeal to pity, Appeal to ignorance, Straw man, Red herring, False dichotomy, Begging the question, Equivocation, Composition, Division, Accident, Complex question, Biased statistic fallacy, Ad baculem or appeal to force.

*Not all may be used. Some might appear more than once.

1. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum's has repeatedly spoken against g*y rights. During a

2005 interview, Santorum argued that g*y marriage is no different from "man on child, man on

dog, or whatever the case may be"

2. Actress Betty Beautiful came out for Proposition 37, the bill to label Genetically Engineered

food. She announced it to a big crowd of admirers, who all agreed to vote for it!

3. The army is notoriously inefficient, so we cannot expect Major Smith to do an efficient job.

4. Smoking pot leads to heroin use. A report by the US Commissioner of Narcotis on a study of

2213 hard core narcotics addicts in the Lexington (Kentucky) Federal Hospital found that 70.4

percent smoked marijuana before taking heroin.

5. Citicorp made some terrible loans to KKR, and then KKR made up a shell corporation which

borrowed money from Citicorp, gave it to KKR, and then KKR “paid” their loan off to Citicorp.

When the regulators charged them with fraud, Citicorp argued that a lot of other banks do the

same thing, including Enron, so why should they be punished?

6. God exists because the Bible tells us so, and we know that what the Bible tells us must be true

because it is the revealed word of God.

7. If you have to eat the same food all the time, you get bored. And if you have to listen to the

same music all the time, you get bored. It's the same with sex. If you have to sleep with the same

person all the time, you get bored. Well, nobody says you can't eat different food or listen to

different music. In the same way, no one should say you can't have a different sex partner.

Variety is the spice of life, after all.

8. The people who run corporations are fascists. Don’t be sucked in by their lies!

9. "Governor Palin, what's your take on the nuclear disaster at the Fukishima plant in Japan?" a

reporter asked. "It's Obama's failed policies and failed sanctions that allowed this to happen.

Perhaps, he should have use the military to suppress the "Tsunami" people who have caused this,

um, er, unforseen tragedy, that perhaps is counter, um, productive to the energy problems facing

this great nation and the vision of our, perhaps, forefathers that allow this great nation to become

great in the eyes of the small towns across the country that are perhaps, the real America."

10. You can't prove that he was to blame for the misfortune, so it must actually have been someone else who was responsible.

11. Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich argued in 2007 that bilingual education should be

replaced by "immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they

learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto." It’s that simple:

immigrants can either learn English or speak the language of the ghetto.

12. My friend bought a new Ford Mustang and it is always in the shop. And my dad had a

Mustang: same thing. Ford: Fix Or Repair Daily. They suck.

13. Tibetans argue that the Chinese should leave their country and let it be free. They point out

that after the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Tibetan nuns -- and some lay women -- were

systematically raped. Many monks were tortured and killed. They say that the aim of China is

“ethnic cleansing”: to eradicate Tibetan culture, and destroy the Tibetans as a people physically,

mentally, and spiritually (by torture, murder, policing, and by moving Chinese en masse into

Tibet). The Chinese responded by threatening more crackdowns and even war.

14. My client is the sole support of his aged parents. If he is sent to prison, it will break their

hearts, and they will be left homeless and penniless. You surely cannot find it in your hearts to

reach any other verdict than "not guilty."

15. "It is degenerate in that it tends to reverse the existing order. It is essentially immoral in that

it will undignify marriage. It is ruinous to the progress of civilization in that it conduces to

undermine religion."

- Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady, arguing against women's suffrage, 1915.

16. Was it through stupidity or through deliberate dishonesty that the Administration has

hopelessly botched its foreign policy?

17. Campaigning for Republican candidates in the 2002 midterm elections, then President Bush

sought to use the congressional debate over a new Homeland Security Department against

Democrats. Democrats were critical of the Homeland Security Agency policy of letting agency

workers go without the usual civil service protections. Bush told at least two audiences that the

Democrats were "not interested in the security of the American people."

18. Criminals are like a cancer in the body of the state. And how do we deal with cancer? We kill

it. Therefore, we shouldn't have any moral qualms about killing criminals.

19. Newt Gingrich attacked Mitt Romney on Romney’s refusal to come clean on his investments,

including investments in the troubled FreddieMac and FannieMae. Romney retorted, why should anyone listen to you? You’ve got investments in the same companies!

20. PG&E came out to my house and put in one of those Smart Meters. And then my electricity

bill went up! It’s gotta be that d*** meter!

Answer 1

1. This argument commits the fallacy of weak analogy.

2. This argument commits the appeal to authority fallacy.

3. This argument commits the fallacy of division.

4. This is an example of biased statistic fallacy.

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