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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

If you don't trust me with a

choice, how can you trust
me with a child?
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

Pollution is slowly killing our planet,

and unless you want to watch your
grandchildren die slowly of cancers
caused by a thinning ozone layer,
you had better start thinking about
how to prevent it
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What the Democrats want is to raise

taxes on everyone's income to bail out
people who can't be bothered to get a job.
And here's why I think this isn't a good
idea.
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

Don't listen to the doctor's

arguments against smoking--they're
worthless, because what he doesn't tell
you is that he himself is a smoker!
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My son says I should let him go to the Eminem

concert on Friday night. But if I start letting
him go to concerts and staying out late, he'll
start to cut school in the morning; next thing
you know, he'll be a dropout, hanging with the
wrong crowd, probably taking drugs with the
rest of his buddies. I don't think a concert is
worth throwing the rest of his future away for
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

All decent people believe in God.

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You corrected an error your friend has

committed and then he told you, “So you
think you’re so smart?”
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

There is no evidence to prove that I

stole your wallet therefore I am
innocent.
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How can you convict this man for

stealing food. He just needed to feed
his family.
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I guess I should buy my 12-year-old

daughter an iPhone. Everyone at her
new school has one, and I want her to
fit in with the other kids.
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My wealthy neighbor says that this

investment is a sure thing, so it must be
a good opportunity.
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

Of course you’re going to believe

everything they said. You’re just like
them.
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If you won’t let me copy your answer,

I will tell our teacher what you did
yesterday.
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You’re either a cat person or a dog

person. Nobody loves them both equally.
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

My opponent raises a good point, but can

we really trust him? I mean, he moved to
this town only two years ago and
everyone knows that his wife left him.
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If I don’t pass tomorrow’s exam, I will not

get the GPA I need to go to a good college,
and then I won’t be able to find a job and
earn a living. If I don’t pass the exam, my
life is ruined!
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I had such a bad day so buying this

new clothes will definitely make me
better.
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My friend cried while talking to her

boyfriend so he’ll forgive her. It
worked.
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I don’t want to tell your boyfriend

that you cheated. But if you won’t
give me money, I might just do it.
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What type of fallacy is present in the statement?

Even the atheist Freud admitted that

the existence of God can't be disproved. So
we have good reason to continue to believe
in him.