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    rarely offer a moral justification for what they’re doing.” (Appiah 564). Appiah makes the generalization that anyone eating this meat lacks a moral justification for eating it. The problem with this is that he is trying to say every individual shares the same feelings on the subject when‚ in reality‚ everyone is entitled to develop their own unique opinion on any given thing. Appiah also uses hasty generalization to talk about the elderly. He specifically states “nearly 2 million of America’s elderly

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    academic argument to back up this claim due to a string of fallacies‚ statements and arguments based on false or invalid inference. Most notable in his essay is “hasty generalization”‚ “missing the point”‚ and the “false dichotomy”. The initial fallacy that undermines the argument is that of “hasty generalization”. A “hasty generalization” is a broad sweeping statement placed on a group of people without a sufficient

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    around the offering plates.”   Student Answer: Ad hominem              Hasty Generalization   Diversion   Appeal to Force   No Fallacy   Points Received: 0 of 1   Comments: Question 4. Question : “You only oppose her policies because you lost the election to her.”   Student Answer: Appeal to popularity   Appeal to ignorance   Hasty Generalization   Ad hominem   No fallacy   Points Received: 0 of 1   Comments:

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    with no actually support of the argument being made. In other words‚ the arguer completely restates the argument in the support. 4. All teenagers text while they drive; therefore‚ we should raise the driving age to 21. a. Hasty Generalization; This is the “hasty generalization” fallacy because they are saying that because teenagers text and drive‚ they need to change the drinking age to 21. Stating that teens text and drive‚ that doesn’t mean that all teenagers are going to drink while driving and

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    Logical Fallacies Journal Among the twelve common logical fallacies you learned from the Purdue website‚ which ones exert the most influence on your behavior as a consumer? Hasty generalization has mostly influenced my behavior as a consumer‚ here’s why. I enjoy shopping at Wal-Mart‚ they said they have: • The lowest prices • Grocery shopping • Cheap prices at the pharmacy • Unbeatable price match After analyzing

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    Rape culture‚ particularly on college campuses‚ is a pervasive part of our current society. As more young women speak out against attacks made against them‚ the issue has made a prominent place for itself in the media and has given a stronger voice to those who have suffered abuse. Camille Paglia‚ a humanities professor and cultural critic‚ examines rape culture through the lens of personal responsibility in an editorial that she wrote for the San Francisco Examiner. She expresses the opinion that

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    Evaluating The Cohabitation Epidemic   Neil Clark Warren in his essay “The Cohabitation Epidemic” starts by using tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf’s case to mention the “cohabitation” issue and then quoting the data from the U.S Census Bureau and researcher Larry Bumpass to show that the number of people involved in cohabitation has significantly increased in the U.S in the last few decades. After that‚ Warren concludes that we should be alarmed over the recent increase of cohabiting couples

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    ineffective due to hasty generalizations‚ ad populum‚ and ad misericordiam. Wiesemann heavily uses the appeal to emotion through examples of morality and ethics. He appeals to adults by stating “ we are also individuals” not just members of a family (65). He states this to invoke interest in the point of views of parents who work to follow the “ideal of family morality” (65). This is a good way to appeal to the audience but it s a hasty

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    about aliens but we’ve never seen a single Martian. Therefore‚ it’s obvious that aliens don’t exist.” Hasty generalization (Converse accident) this fallacy affects inductive generalizations. It involves making hasty generalizations about a specific sample and applying it to a larger group. Example: “My last two computers didn’t last me a year. Every computer out there is a piece of junk!” Generalizations can be made‚ though‚ that are justified and don’t commit

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    tuberculosis and leprosy. However this statement is not supported by evidence‚ it is used to scare the audience by associating the undocumented population with diseases. His statement‚ “all Mexicans are lepers” is a fallacy of hasty generalization and scare tactics. Hasty generalization refers to as “the drawing of a conclusion based on a small sample size‚ rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average

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