"All people from Crete are liars."

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Strawman argument

• False Dilemma

"The Senator thinks we can solve all our ecological problems by driving a Prius."

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Strawman Argument

• False Dilemma

"We have no evidence that the Illuminati ever existed. They must have been so clever that they destroyed all evidence."

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Strawman Argument

• False Dilemma

"Either you love me or you hate me."

• Ad Hominem

• Strawman Argument

• Appeal to Ignorance

• False Dilemma

"If you miss practice, it means you were probably goofing off. People who goof off drop out of school and end up penniless."

• Red Herring Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Argument

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

"Smoking pot is against the law because it is wrong; I know it's wrong because it is against the law."

• Red Herring Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Argument

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

"People nowadays only vote with their emotions instead of their brains."

• Red Herring Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Argument

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

"My wife wants to talk about cleaning out the garage, so I asked her what she wants to do with the patio furniture, because it's just sitting in the garage taking up space."

• Circular Argument

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Red Herring Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization

"But, Dad, I know you smoked when you were my age, so how can you tell me not to do it?"

• Hasty Generalization

• Causal Fallacy

• Appeal to Hypocrisy

• Fallacy of Sunk Costs

"Every time a rooster crows, the sun comes up. Crows must be the creators of the universe."

• Causal Fallacy

• Appeal to Hypocrisy

• Fallacy of Sunk Costs

• Appeal to Authority