Logical Fallacies

Either you love bacon, or you're wrong.

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon Appeals

• False Dilemma

I am voting for Smith for President. My whole family is Democrat, so I'll be voting that way, too.

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon Appeal

• Appeal to False Authority

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Circular Reasoning

• False Dilemma

I saw Ashton Kutcher in a commercial for male skin care. He's looking good for his age, so I'm willing to try the product. He must know what he's talking about.

• Red Herring

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Appeal to Authority

People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns.

• ad hominem

• Guilt by Association

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

America is the best place to live, because it's better than any other country.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• circular logic

• straw man

"Russia has a terrible human rights record."

"Well, the United States has done plenty of bad things, but we aren't a bad country, so Russia isn't, either." -the President when confronted about Russia's human rights abuses.

• slippery slope

• red herring

• moral equivalence

• Appeal to Pity

There is a lot of commotion regarding saving the environment. We simply cannot make this world into the Garden of Eden. Pursuing perfection is impossible and pointless. And besides, even Adam and Eve got bored in Eden!

• red herring

• moral equivalence

• Sunk Cost

• straw man

It is warmer this year in Las Vegas as compared to last year; therefore, global warming is rapidly accelerating.

• slippery slope

• red herring

• circular reasoning

• hasty generalization

If we use just one more can of hairspray this month, earth as we know it will no longer exist.

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

• red herring

• straw man