Examples of Fallacies

Begging the Question : Japanese animation is better than american animation because it’s made in Japan.

Ad Hominem: Human: You don’t know anything since your just a duck. Duck: Why don’t you question why I’m talking first?

Equivocation: Bleach is healthy. It’s mostly water,and Humans are mostly water therefore we are bleach.

Slippery Slope: If you litter someone has to clean it. That person will get angry since they finally had enough of this and in their fit of rage end up bumping into a child and cause the kid to go towards a car. Then someone sacrifices themselves to save the child, then the kid starts crying because they dropped their ice cream. You littering will kill someone and waste a perfectly good ice cream.

Straw Man: A: We should stop harassing those ducks that can talk. They have intelligence, we must treat them as equals!

B: Yeah, but ducks have tendencies to rape! They even have sex with dead bodies with their weird spiral genitalia.

Tu Quoque: Why are you angry about that person is spending money on the newest phone? You spend money all the time on video games that just came out.

Non-Sequiter: You know that murderers hate animals. Billy hates animals so he must be a murderer!

False Dichotomy:

A: Look the only options we have are we either kill the talking ducks or get killed ourselves.

B: Wait, we haven’t even had proper discussion with them.

A: Those are the only options

Argument from Ignorance: How were those pyramids constructed in a time where modern tools were not available? It has to be aliens!

Red Herring:

A: People are mad that talking ducks don’t have to pay taxes.

B: If I tell people it’s because of illegal talking beaver immigrants that’ll change their minds.

Extra Examples

Slippery Slope: Stop cracking your knuckles! You’ll get arthritis early then you can’t hold a baby which will then fall. You’ll kill a baby if you keep cracking your knuckles.

Equivocation: Since cartoons are animated and anime is animated that means anime are cartoons!

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