Conversation 7: Fallacy

The fallacy that I have chosen is the appeal to emotion from my understanding it’s a way to manipulate and persuade your argument by using emotions, meaning making the other person, feel guilty or pity over their argument, and in the end making it seem that the argument they state isn’t logical unlike theirs. Only emotional claims are used instead of using relevant facts and logic. These types of arguments that appeal to emotion mostly happen in relationships. Where a partner makes their other partner, feel guilty, and has them apologize when they know that their argument isn’t just logical not only logical, but they did wrong. One example I encountered this week was during my orientation class at my job, we were discussing the sexual-harassment part and we were discussing scenarios where we had to identify whether or not they were examples of sexual harassment. The point of this assignment for the new hires was for them to understand what sexual harassment is and what is acceptable and not acceptable in the working environment. There was a scenario where a male coworker commented on a female coworker, telling her that she shouldn’t be working so hard that she should be home taking care of the kids the question was whether this was an example of sexual harassment, one of the new hires commented that he doesn’t understand why would a female get offended by this when he thinks it’s actually a compliment, stating that she should be home and not doing anything and another new hire female she responded back, saying what makes you think we can’t do the same work as a male they started going back-and-forth, the male was stating that the argument wasn’t sexual-harassment, while the female stated it was. The correct answer was yes the statement was sexual-harassment because the comment was gender discrimination. The reason it was sexual harassment was, because in the scenario the male was stating that the woman was in capable of doing the job so she should stay home. In the end, both new hires had the same opinion in the argument, but the argument ended with me stating what doesn’t apply outside of work doesn’t apply at work. Meaning that outside of work they can discuss in have their opinion buddy and work. This is considered sexual harassment and it’s not allowed.