Logical Fallacies

The RCMP reduced the number of police officers on the streets last year. The city is to blame for increased crime!

• Post hoc fallacy

• Slippery Slope

• Red Herring

• Circular Logic

If we don't stop UBC from increasing tuition by 10%, in the future we will have to pay even more for tuition, and our education will suffer!

• False dichotomy

• Stereotype

• Slippery slope

• Ad populum fallcy

Men shouldn't be hired as caregivers because they are too impatient.

• Red herring

• Stereotype

• Circular logic

• Post hoc fallacy

North American universities focus too much on exams.

• Stereotype

• Straw man fallacy

• Ad hominem fallacy

• Generalization without evidence

He spent most of his younger years playing professional tennis. He's not qualified to comment on public education.

• Straw man fallacy

• Quid pro quo

• Ad hominem fallacy

• Ad populum fallacy

I read in a survey that 75% of Europeans would consider voting to leave the EU. It's time for our country to leave, too!

• Ad populum fallacy

• Ad hominem fallacy

• Circular logic

• Red herring

My opponent supports further privatization of public health care. They clearly want the poor to suffer when they become sick.

• Stereotype

• Generalization without evidence

• Straw man

• Ad hominem fallacy

Young people shouldn't be allowed to drive before 18 because younger drives cause more accidents. In my day, most people I knew didn't start driving until they had finished college.

• False dichotomy

• Red herring

• Slippery slope

• Ad populum fallacy

To make the roads safer, the only solutions are to reduce speed limits and increase fines for speeding. Nothing else will work, so let's stop wasting time!

• Stereotype

• Ad hominem fallacy

• False dichotomy

• Circular logic

I believe young people shouldn't be allowed to start driving before the age of 18 because young drivers cause more accidents and are less responsible. Making them wait until 18 will make the roads safer and create a greater sense of responsibility among youth.

• Straw man

• Circular logic

• False dichotomy

• Red herring