Fallacies by Shauna McPherson Lone Peak High School
Jan 02, 2016
Lamont told me that all the kindergartners outline their drawings. They don’t just color. If I don’t outline, he says, I won’t be cool when I go to kindergarten next year.
My printer spit out a few weird codes. If we don’t get this fixed right away, I bet my computer’s going to need to be replaced.
The majority of the Grammy winners have been black for the last few years. The award givers are likely biased toward blacks.
If you go into the ROTC, they’ll pay completely for your college and you’ll be able to ride in helicopters and rappel.
I wouldn’t want to go into the ROTC because my cousin did it and had a terrible experience. He was “hazed” by his group and nearly was suffocated from one of their tests. He also was fed such lousy food that he ended up having to be hospitalized.
Furthermore, all five of your brothers have served their country. Are you going to be less patriotic than they are?
Bandwagon/Appeal to Tradition, Appeal to Nationalism/Virtue Words, also implying an Either/Or (or you could call it Many Questions)
So, you’re deciding between fighting for democracy, gaining a tough body, and learning some adult discipline, or skipping around the country with a bunch of free-loaders, and helping out some lazy good-for-nothings?
Plus, keep in mind, that by joining the military, I met the sexiest, most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my life.
But if I joined the ROTC, you know I’d have to wear khaki a lot, and that color looks terrible on me.
(assume he would have to wear khaki and assume the color does look terrible on him)