Summary Of Larry Tomczak's Three Reasons To Legalizing Marijuana
In his online article, 3 Reasons to Reject Legalizing Marijuana, Larry Tomczak discusses the reasons why marijuana legalization should be rejected in the United States. Though Tomczak makes some smart choices by using emotion to appeal to the audience, his use of logical fallacies such as jumping to conclusions and false analogies make Tomczak’s argument not as strong as it could be.
The whole point of Tomczak’s article is to convince readers that the legalization of marijuana is a horrible idea not only for the United States and the citizens within. He divides his article up into three parts, which are three of the reasons that he thinks the reader should go against the legalization of marijuana: Don’t Be Duped, Your Health Matters, and Avoid …show more content…
Lying with statistics another that Tomczak uses within his article. In the Your Health Matters section of his article, Tomczak gives various statistics on how smoking cigarettes can cause death and illness. Yes, these facts may be accurate, but they have nothing to do with the topic that is currently being discussed: marijuana. As mentioned previously, there were Bible verses throughout Tomczak’s article. These Bible verses discuss how to respect the body and how Jesus “deliberately refused any mind-altering intoxicant” (Tomczak 2014). This fallacy is an example of appealing to authority. Saying that Jesus refusing to use mind-altering drugs is basically the same as Jesus saying that drugs are bad and should not be legalized, or at least this is what Tomczak feels. The use of this authority fallacy could be equivalent to Jesus being the spokesperson of an anti-marijuana campaign. Throughout his article, Larry Tomczak discusses why marijuana should not be legalized in the United States. Though Tomczak makes some smart choices by using emotion to appeal to the audience, his use of logical fallacies such as jumping to conclusions and false analogies lead to a weaker argument than what it could have been without. If Tomczak were to have presented facts relative to his issue and left out the fallacies, his argument would be much more
The whole point of Tomczak’s article is to convince readers that the legalization of marijuana is a horrible idea not only for the United States and the citizens within. He divides his article up into three parts, which are three of the reasons that he thinks the reader should go against the legalization of marijuana: Don’t Be Duped, Your Health Matters, and Avoid …show more content…
Lying with statistics another that Tomczak uses within his article. In the Your Health Matters section of his article, Tomczak gives various statistics on how smoking cigarettes can cause death and illness. Yes, these facts may be accurate, but they have nothing to do with the topic that is currently being discussed: marijuana. As mentioned previously, there were Bible verses throughout Tomczak’s article. These Bible verses discuss how to respect the body and how Jesus “deliberately refused any mind-altering intoxicant” (Tomczak 2014). This fallacy is an example of appealing to authority. Saying that Jesus refusing to use mind-altering drugs is basically the same as Jesus saying that drugs are bad and should not be legalized, or at least this is what Tomczak feels. The use of this authority fallacy could be equivalent to Jesus being the spokesperson of an anti-marijuana campaign. Throughout his article, Larry Tomczak discusses why marijuana should not be legalized in the United States. Though Tomczak makes some smart choices by using emotion to appeal to the audience, his use of logical fallacies such as jumping to conclusions and false analogies lead to a weaker argument than what it could have been without. If Tomczak were to have presented facts relative to his issue and left out the fallacies, his argument would be much more