55 questions
Grizzly bears can't be dangerous! They're too cute.
hasty generalization
red herring
strawman
ad hominem
Senator Ribbit is a liar. You shouldn't listen to him on anything.
circular reasoning
ad hominem
slippery slope
red herring
My uncle is a mechanic and he says you shouldn't spank children. He says it's ineffective.
faulty authority
hasty generalization
strawman
either/or
If we let the government implant tracking devices in criminals, it's not going to stop there! They're going to want to track school children and eventually everyone!
either/or
slippery slope
non sequitur
faulty cause and effect
Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!
slippery slope
circular reasoning/begging the question
hasty generalization
non sequitur
You've got to teach the boys logic! If you don't teach them logic, they won't learn how to think! And they'll become hobos and die in prison! Don't you care about your sons? (Mother to Father)
either/or
hasty generalization
faulty cause and effect
strawman
Politician Running for Public Office: You can all trust what I say. I have never lied in my life.
strawman
faulty authority
circular reasoning/begging the question
non sequitur
Bert: I've been learning about the Second World War lately. I found that America provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor. I don't think that was the right thing to do.
Jenny: Oh, so you are now taking the side of Axis? Do you think Germany and Japan were right to do what they did?
faulty cause and effect
strawman
ad hominem
non sequitur
Since a single human cell becomes a grown man over a period of a few years, then surely it can't be impossible for a single-cell organism to become the human race over a period of several million years.
weak analogy
hasty generalization
non sequitur
circular reasoning
There's no point listening to you. Everybody knows you're just a little do-gooder.
ad hominem
circular reasoning
bandwagon
faulty analogy
God did not create the world six thousand years ago because matter has always existed, and therefore the world has always existed.
non sequitur
circular reasoning
faulty analogy
hasty generalization
Interviewer: What do you think should be done about people who swear in public?
Man on the Street: I think it should be against the law.
Interviewer: Oh, I suppose you're against the right to free speech, then?
ad hominem
red herring
strawman
appeal to pity
OJ Simpson couldn't have murdered his wife. He's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's famous!
faulty authority
circular reasoning
red herring
appeal to fear
I think scientists are wrong. There is no such thing as global warming. I just finished talking to my boss, and he thought the idea was ridiculous.
faulty analogy
Tu Quoque
faulty authority
appeal to the people
If you're going to add that much salt to the soup, you might as well pour the whole box in!
slippery slope
ad hominem
faulty analogy
hasty generalization
The Supreme Court right now is deciding whether it is right to execute insane people who have committed murder. I think it is all right to execute insane people. If we ban executions of insane people, then everybody on death row will suddenly decide they are insane and purposely fail sanity tests. It would result in chaos.
red herring
slippery slope
appeal to fear
faulty cause and effect
You can buy the new Sensitivity perfume, or you can smell bad all day.
faulty analogy
either/or
hasty generalization
non sequitur
I don't think we need to talk to the people in the Justice Department about the practicality of enforcing this bill. The Justice Department is full of Democrats, and they are already biased against it.
ad hominem
faulty cause and effect
faulty analogy
bandwagon
Farmer McDonald: Ever since they put up that new power plant across the river, we haven't had a bit of rain. I'm tellin' you, mankind has got too big for its britches when it fiddles around with nature.
faulty analogy
faulty authority
faulty cause and effect (post hoc ergo propter hoc)
hasty generalization
A cloud is 90 percent water; a watermelon is 90 percent water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.
faulty analogy
circular reasoning
loaded question
faulty cause and effect