Informative Essay: The Fallacy Of Red Herring
Red Herring fallacy is a fallacy, which someone presents a new issue, or argument that disturbs from the original topic. So they try to bring an unrelated subject to interfere the topic that originally was started in the beginning.
For example:
Daughter: Mom, Can I go to a party tonight?
Mom: How can I be certain your not going to drink alcohol?
Daughter: Ugh mom, how can you even consider that when I’ve been doing homework all day!
This is an example of red herring because “doing homework all day” has extremely nothing to do with whether or not she’ll drink. She tried to change the focus of the conversation by bringing another topic up, which is considered red herring. This actually happens to me very often. I usually do this when I want
For example:
Daughter: Mom, Can I go to a party tonight?
Mom: How can I be certain your not going to drink alcohol?
Daughter: Ugh mom, how can you even consider that when I’ve been doing homework all day!
This is an example of red herring because “doing homework all day” has extremely nothing to do with whether or not she’ll drink. She tried to change the focus of the conversation by bringing another topic up, which is considered red herring. This actually happens to me very often. I usually do this when I want