You know the kind of arguments you hear and you just want to be like, are you serious? Or the arguments that make you question, does that even make sense at all? Or maybe there are just arguments that you totally overlook at the present time, then later realize how false it was. Those are fallacies--bad arguments that are simply unrepairable.
One typical fallacy would be one that takes on a “bad appeal to common belief” as mentioned in the book. This fallacy is an argument that makes a conclusion appear to be true for the mere fact that the premise is typical, regular, or frequent. However, a common standard doesn’t necessarily make it entirely true.
Take for example a moment when someone referred to a cigarette as a cancer stick.
The person smoking the cigarette said, “Whatever. Look, everyone else here is smoking and they’re fine. So it’s cool.”
Oh, on the contrary. It’s definitely not okay or ‘cool’ to smoke it without worrying about getting addicted or getting cancer (hence the ‘cancer stick’ part). Peer pressure about everything would be the greatest example of this fallacy.
I mean, if “everybody’s doing it,”
Oh, then it must be all right.
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