- Begging the Question – Everyone’s opinion matters but minors shouldn’t vote because they are not mature enough but they should learn about politics
2. Ad Hominem – You cannot criticize the president’s poor decisions because you didn’t vote last year
3. Equivocation –
4. Slippery Slope – If you hang out with your friends too often you will start dating one of them. If you start dating one of them then you will get pregnant. If you get pregnant then you will have to dropout of high school and if you dropout of high school and become a mother so young you will be unsuccessful and miserable in life. So don’t hang out with your friends too often.
5. Straw Man- Person A: You should be mindful of the costumes you choose to wear because they can sometimes be inappropriate or offensive.
Person B: Just because I am white and want to dress up as a Mexican for halloween because I think it’s funny doesn’t mean I am offending all Mexicans. It isn’t cultural appropriation because I have Mexican friends !
6. Tu Quoque – Mom, you got pregnant with me at 14 and always tell me I shouldn’t get pregnant because I’m only 15, you can’t tell me not to do something you did at a younger age!
7. Non-Sequitur – Person A: No thanks, I don’t like oranges.
Person B: What do you mean you don’t like oranges? Oranges are a fruit – you like apples and bananas and they’re both fruits so you should like oranges too.
8. False Dichotomy – You’re making plans to hang out with a good friend. While making plans she asks whether you want to go shopping at the mall in the morning or go shopping at the mall in the afternoon.
9. Argument from Ignorance – I am a male who has never experienced menstrual cramps, therefore menstrual cramps are not real
10. Red Herring – Person A: I don’t believe campus police should be armed because they can abuse their power too easily
Person B: But haven’t you heard all those stories about cars being stolen from the student parking garage? Car theft has become a serious issue around here
11. Loaded Language – Recently a biased and wrongful law has been passed which prevents women from legally receiving abortion services.
12. Hasty Generalization – The 2 relationships I have been in have both gotten rocky or ended at about a year which means all the relationships I will ever be in will also end at about a year. (407)
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