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Identify any examples of fallacies in the following passages. Tell why you

Think these are fallacies, and identify which category they belong in, if they

Fit any category we’ve described.

2. Ad hominem

Showing through in her July 15 letter. This time she expresses her abhorrence

Of abortion. But how we see only what we choose to see! I wonder

If any of the anti-abortionists have considered the widespread use of

Fertility drugs as the moral equivalent of abortion, and, if they have,

Why they haven’t come out against them, too. The use of these drugs

Frequently results in multiple births, which leads to the death of one

Of the infants, often after an agonizing struggle for survival. According

To the rules of the pro-lifers, isn’t this murder?”

Letter to the editor: “Andrea Keene’s selective morality is once again
— North-State Record

3. Poisoning the well

be a widow.” The letter writer, a divorcée, complained about widows

Who said they had a hard time coping. Far better, she wrote, to be a

Widow than to be a divorcée, who are all “rejects” who have been “publicly

dumped” and are avoided “like they have leprosy.” Abby recognized

The pseudoreasoning for what it was, though she did not call it by our

Name. What is our name for it?

In one of her columns, Abigail Van Buren printed the letter of “I’d rather
5. hasty generalizing

closing North Park Drive for the sake of a few joggers and bicyclists.

These so-called fitness enthusiasts would evidently have us give up to

them for their own private use every last square inch of Walnut Grove.

Then anytime anyone wanted a picnic, he would have to park at the

edge of the park and carry everything in—ice chests, chairs, maybe even

grandma. I certainly hope the Commission keeps the entire park open

for everyone to use.”

Letter to the editor: “Once again the Park Commission is considering
6. Ad hominem

on federal property near the White House, of a set of plastic figurines representing

a devout Jewish family in ancient Judaea. The protestors would

of course deny that they are driven by any anti-Semitic motivation. Still,

we wonder: Would they raise the same objections (of unconstitutionality,

etc.) if the scene depicted a modern, secularized Gentile family?”

“Some Christian—and other—groups are protesting against the placing,
— National Review

ability to raise additional sources of revenue, not only to meet the

demands of growth but also to maintain existing levels of service. For

without these sources those demands will not be met, and it will be impossible

to maintain services even at present levels.”

8. post hoc
From a letter to the editor: “The counties of Michigan clearly need the

Gave a radio interview (broadcast on National Public Radio) in which he

Said that the Church was against the use of condoms. Even though the

Rate of AIDS infection in Puerto Rico is much higher than on the U.S.

Mainland, the spokesman said that the Church could not support the use

Of condoms because they are not absolutely reliable in preventing the

Spread of the disease. “If you could prove that condoms were absolutely

dependable in preventing a person from contracting AIDS, then the

Church could support their use.”

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