Fallacy Worksheet #3
If the statement isn't a fallacy write “no fallacy”. Otherwise if the statement is a fallacy, write which one(s). Some statements may contain more than one fallacy.
The list of fallacies I'm drawing from are:
Wishful thinking
Appeal to ignorance
Appeal to consequences
Appeal to the masses
Appeal to tradition
Appeal to force
Appeal to authority
Equivocation
Hasty Generalization
False Dichotomy
Ad Hominem
Straw Man
Slippery Slope
I have serious concerns about the ethics of face transplants. If we let the badly disfigured have face transplants then what is next? Will rich older women hire hit men to find and capture attractive young women in order to steal their faces? We have to nip this in the bud and make face transplants illegal or we will have an epidemic of this entirely new sort of crime.
We don't know what dangers lie in wait. We don't know who is around the next corner. It could be a rapist or a serial killer. We should always be on our guard, ever vigilant, paying 100% attention to every possible danger.
Everyone knows that atheists all have one thing in common: they hate God. How could anyone ever trust someone that hated God? We must not let our compassion get the best of us but instead recognize this evil for what it is.
I knew a couple of guys that were both left handed and drunks. I think left handers must just be basically defective.
Senator Kerry said it's important that the troops not terrorize Iraqi families with nighttime raids. How can he say that our troops are terrorists? He is entirely unAmerican.
If we allow Federal regulations on communications equipment for our first responders, then where will Federal regulations stop? Before we know it we will be living with Big Brother.
If you don't leave the premises immediately, you will be handcuffed and processed.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, so he must surely have a finely tuned, scientific mind. So if he says that little girls met faeries in the forest and that the photographs are genuine, I believe him.
I met a red-headed girl who had a crazy temper. Man, those redheads.
It's common knowledge that on the night of the full moon, far more babies are born than on a typical night. We should not, then, underestimate the positive influence of the moon on a woman's health.
You are either a child or an adult. Make a choice.
Women are the inferior and imperfect sex and must be protected from others and from their own foolishness. This immutable truth was known since time immemorial and should be not be challenged.
“We have people in this country from the left who probably jump up and down every time an American loses his life.”
You will believe as our tribe believes or face banishment.
Grown-ups are boring. All they talk about is insurance and mortgages.
“If there is one indisputable fact about the human condition it is that no community can survive if it is persuaded -or even suspects- that its members are leading meaningless lives in a meaningless universe.”
Everyone knows that Christians are just interested in one thing in politics, being the morality police. All they want is for the U.S. government to become an intrusive Christian theocracy.
The behavior of our children must be changeable and cannot be due to genetics. Otherwise, what is the point of being good parents?
The Bush Administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge or criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democracy nor what this country has stood for, for over 200 years.
"The CIA director has misled the nation using false intelligence; he must either be incompetent or lying."
Only an idiot wouldn't realize what everyone knows, which is legalizing marijuana would lead to an epidemic of addiction, a nation of potheads with only their next fix on their drug addled brains.
A person is either alive or they are dead. Saying that someone is brain dead has no meaning whatsoever.
What's your problem with me drinking the spiked orange punch? Orange juice is good for you.
You have an opinion? Okay then, tell me what your dumb opinion is.
"No threat, no threat will prevent freedom-loving people from defending freedom. And make no mistake about it: This is good versus evil. These are evildoers. They have no justification for their actions. There's no religious justification, there's no political justification. The only motivation is evil."
Those evolutionist think we came from dogs. What sort of an dummy thinks we came from dogs.
“Homeopathy is a system of healing which has attracted many avowed followers in its 200+ year history. Because homeopathic remedies are safe and believed by many to be effective, we will continue to carry them in our stores.”
In a democracy, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and so we should respect everyone's opinion. There is some disagreement over whether the Holocaust took place, so we should have a vote to decide whether it belongs in the high school history curriculum or not.
If you don't get behind the battle plan and believe in the competence and leadership of this President, you only hurt the troops.
The list of fallacies I'm drawing from are:
Wishful thinking
Appeal to ignorance
Appeal to consequences
Appeal to the masses
Appeal to tradition
Appeal to force
Appeal to authority
Equivocation
Hasty Generalization
False Dichotomy
Ad Hominem
Straw Man
Slippery Slope
I have serious concerns about the ethics of face transplants. If we let the badly disfigured have face transplants then what is next? Will rich older women hire hit men to find and capture attractive young women in order to steal their faces? We have to nip this in the bud and make face transplants illegal or we will have an epidemic of this entirely new sort of crime.
We don't know what dangers lie in wait. We don't know who is around the next corner. It could be a rapist or a serial killer. We should always be on our guard, ever vigilant, paying 100% attention to every possible danger.
Everyone knows that atheists all have one thing in common: they hate God. How could anyone ever trust someone that hated God? We must not let our compassion get the best of us but instead recognize this evil for what it is.
I knew a couple of guys that were both left handed and drunks. I think left handers must just be basically defective.
Senator Kerry said it's important that the troops not terrorize Iraqi families with nighttime raids. How can he say that our troops are terrorists? He is entirely unAmerican.
If we allow Federal regulations on communications equipment for our first responders, then where will Federal regulations stop? Before we know it we will be living with Big Brother.
If you don't leave the premises immediately, you will be handcuffed and processed.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, so he must surely have a finely tuned, scientific mind. So if he says that little girls met faeries in the forest and that the photographs are genuine, I believe him.
I met a red-headed girl who had a crazy temper. Man, those redheads.
It's common knowledge that on the night of the full moon, far more babies are born than on a typical night. We should not, then, underestimate the positive influence of the moon on a woman's health.
You are either a child or an adult. Make a choice.
Women are the inferior and imperfect sex and must be protected from others and from their own foolishness. This immutable truth was known since time immemorial and should be not be challenged.
“We have people in this country from the left who probably jump up and down every time an American loses his life.”
You will believe as our tribe believes or face banishment.
Grown-ups are boring. All they talk about is insurance and mortgages.
“If there is one indisputable fact about the human condition it is that no community can survive if it is persuaded -or even suspects- that its members are leading meaningless lives in a meaningless universe.”
Everyone knows that Christians are just interested in one thing in politics, being the morality police. All they want is for the U.S. government to become an intrusive Christian theocracy.
The behavior of our children must be changeable and cannot be due to genetics. Otherwise, what is the point of being good parents?
The Bush Administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge or criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democracy nor what this country has stood for, for over 200 years.
"The CIA director has misled the nation using false intelligence; he must either be incompetent or lying."
Only an idiot wouldn't realize what everyone knows, which is legalizing marijuana would lead to an epidemic of addiction, a nation of potheads with only their next fix on their drug addled brains.
A person is either alive or they are dead. Saying that someone is brain dead has no meaning whatsoever.
What's your problem with me drinking the spiked orange punch? Orange juice is good for you.
You have an opinion? Okay then, tell me what your dumb opinion is.
"No threat, no threat will prevent freedom-loving people from defending freedom. And make no mistake about it: This is good versus evil. These are evildoers. They have no justification for their actions. There's no religious justification, there's no political justification. The only motivation is evil."
Those evolutionist think we came from dogs. What sort of an dummy thinks we came from dogs.
“Homeopathy is a system of healing which has attracted many avowed followers in its 200+ year history. Because homeopathic remedies are safe and believed by many to be effective, we will continue to carry them in our stores.”
In a democracy, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and so we should respect everyone's opinion. There is some disagreement over whether the Holocaust took place, so we should have a vote to decide whether it belongs in the high school history curriculum or not.
If you don't get behind the battle plan and believe in the competence and leadership of this President, you only hurt the troops.
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