Arguments & Non-arguments

1. I ate because I was hungry.

If Christmas is on a Friday, the day after Christmas must be a Saturday.

The Cascades mountain range contains many majestic peaks. Mt. Rainier and Mt. Hood, for instance, are both more than ten thousand feet.

Never hit your child. Today health professionals agree that hitting children harms them emotionally as well as physically, fosters rage and self-hate, and often does lasting damage to their self-esteem and sense of worth.

If you don’t listen to radio talk shows, you really should, because it gives you a chance to reassure yourself that a great many people out there are much stupider than you are.

Dogs make better pets than cats because they’re more intelligent and obedient

I stayed home from school because I was sick.

Children should be taught not to steal because it is wrong. They should not be taught not to steal because there is a rule against stealing.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. (Samuel Johnson)

I believe that ghosts are real.