When you attempted to manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
Appeals to emotion include appeals to fear, envy, hatred, pity, pride, and more. It's important to note that sometimes a logically coherent argument may inspire emotion or have an emotional aspect, but the problem and fallacy occurs when emotion is used instead of a logical argument, or to obscure the fact that no compelling rational reason exists for one's position. Everyone, bar sociopaths, is affected by emotion, and so appeals to emotion are a very common and effective argument tactic, but they're ultimately flawed, dishonest, and tend to make one's opponents justifiably emotional.
Example: Luke didn't want to eat his sheep's brains with chopped liver and brussel sprouts, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who weren't fortunate enough to have any food at all. |
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"When you attempted to manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
Appeals to emotion include appeals to fear, envy, hatred, pity, pride, and more. It's important to note that sometimes a logically coherent argument may inspire emotion or have an emotional aspect, but the problem and fallacy occurs when emotion is used instead of a logical argument, or to obscure the fact that no compelling rational reason exists for one's position. Everyone, bar sociopaths, is affected by emotion, and so appeals to emotion are a very common and effective argument tactic, but they're ultimately flawed, dishonest, and tend to make one's opponents justifiably emotional.
Example: Luke didn't want to eat his sheep's brains with chopped liver and brussel sprouts, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who weren't fortunate enough to have any food at all."
That is exactly the same how the political parties talk to the electorate. |
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"When you attempted to manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
Appeals to emotion include appeals to fear, envy, hatred, pity, pride, and more. It's important to note that sometimes a logically coherent argument may inspire emotion or have an emotional aspect, but the problem and fallacy occurs when emotion is used instead of a logical argument, or to obscure the fact that no compelling rational reason exists for one's position. Everyone, bar sociopaths, is affected by emotion, and so appeals to emotion are a very common and effective argument tactic, but they're ultimately flawed, dishonest, and tend to make one's opponents justifiably emotional.
Example: Luke didn't want to eat his sheep's brains with chopped liver and brussel sprouts, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who weren't fortunate enough to have any food at all.
That is exactly the same how the political parties talk to the electorate."
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The most common version of this being "But won't someone think of the children".
Currently being used by the UK government to try to get support for banning encryption with the line "children are at risk". |
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"The most common version of this being "But won't someone think of the children".
Currently being used by the UK government to try to get support for banning encryption with the line "children are at risk"."
Among other things using the same argument yeah.
Historically it gets pulled out whenever someone wants to attack LGBTQIA+ rights in any way shape or fashion. |
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"The most common version of this being "But won't someone think of the children".
Currently being used by the UK government to try to get support for banning encryption with the line "children are at risk".
Among other things using the same argument yeah.
Historically it gets pulled out whenever someone wants to attack LGBTQIA+ rights in any way shape or fashion."
If you asked a computer to analyse events and recommend how to protect children in the UK based on abuse statistics it would say ban the Catholic Church and Taxi firms in Bradford. I doubt if either will happen though. |
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