Select one fallacy from this week’s list. In the subject of your post, include your name and the name of the fallacy of your choice. Be sure to pick a fallacy that hasn’t been claimed yet. In your own words, define the fallacy and provide your own original example of the fallacy, followed by an explanation. The example can be an image, a cartoon, a video, text, or anything else that works.
Replies to classmates: comment on your classmates’ fallacies (at least 1).
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Lucia Ellis
Appeal to Emotion- Controlling a persons feeling during an argument, to better your changes of wining the argument since there’s not enough actual evidence.
Example: Judge I shouldn’t go to jail for punching Mary in the face, I’m 80 years old.
In this situation she is appealing to the judges emotions by using her age in hopes that the judge will fell sorry for her.