Carron Lodge

Classify each statement error by copying and pasting in the text box next to its matching fallacy type.

Fallacy Statements

1. It is someone with a very big heart to give to our charity, and you seem like someone who cares more than others.

2. On a radio advertisement: "Were you tired, irritable, moody? If these symptoms are ignored, you may suffer from depression and even suicidal! Stave off the blues by taking a pill proven to cheer you up. The million people, and they are happy they did! "

3. One member of the Task Force: "I do not understand. One minute she says she is coming, and then the other, it calls cancel. I wonder if we can be confident that the articles she submitted are what we need! "

4. You go out with Carron? Well, it is a good person, but I hear her last relationship was a wreck! I'd be careful if I were you.

5. About an already attractive home interior: "I do not know why we started this renovation, so we are just two of the rooms. Anyway, it will not be right unless we redo the entire house. "

6. Stomachache or not, how could you not eat your dinner after having spent all this time he did!

7. I do not care if it is the top psychiatrist in the state! Her theory on sibling rivalry is extreme. How can we believe anything it says if she subscribes to theories of this nature?

8. From a policy on another: "It is a double-sided, liberal, anti-family, anti-values idealist!"

9. My friend, who goes to college in another state, said the sorority girls are evil. That girl we just met, Tracy, is the same sorority, so I do not trust her.

10. From a teenager confronted by his parents to break the curfew: "Why do we keep harping on this curfew thing? Let's talk about a note I get in algebra. "

11. From a mother to another: "I can not believe Shelia lets her kids watch that garbage! I always knew she was not very strict. Now, our children will be there watching that junk, too! "

12. From a conspiracy theorist: "Come on, everyone knows that the government lied to us in the past. This case is no different."

13. If it was not the president's environmental policy, we would not face these environmental disasters.

14. It is shameful that a member of the Elks Lodge came from fast food restaurants every night. The Elks commitment to family values, including meals at home.

15. Of course, I heard it is better not eat cheeseburgers every day, but it's extra protein and protein is best for you.

Fallacy Fallacy Type Declaration
Ad hominem / genetic

Wishful Thinking

"Argument" from popularity


Hasty generalization

"Argument" from outrage


Man of straw

Post hoc

Red Herring / Smokescreen


Group think

alarmist

Poison Well

Apple polishing

guilt

Perfectionist fallacy

Inconsistency ad hominem

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