Logical Fallacies Quiz - Week 2/3

If we ban Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars, so we should not ban Hummers.

• Slipper Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Argument

• Red Herring

Even though it's only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring course.

• Begging the Claim

• Ad hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

I drank bottled water and now I am sick, so the water must have made me sick.

• Hasty Generalization

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Genetic Fallacy

• Either/or

The Volkswagen Beetle is an evil car because it was originally designed by Hitler's army.

• Begging the Claim

• Genetic Fallacy

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.

• Begging the Claim

• Circular Argument

• Ad populum

  /Bandwagon Appeal

• Red Herring

George Bush is a good communicator because he speaks effectively.

• Straw Man

• Either/or

• Circular Argument

• Moral Equivalence

We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Either/or

Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies.

• Ad hominem

• Red Herring

• Moral Equivalence

• Begging the Claim

If you were a true American you would support the rights of people to choose whatever vehicle they want.

• Begging the Claim

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad populum/

  Bandwagon Appeal

• Slippery Slope

The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe, but what will fishers do to support their families?

• Moral Equivalence

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• Genetic Fallacy