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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Appeal to Fear



After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 Bush was in more of a position than ever to ensure that people were going to still be his followers and believe in his authority. In the first minute of his speech, he retells the story of what had happened, and how these "vicious enemies" are out to get us and bring us down. By using the fear fallacy, which uses dread to achieve a wanted outcome, he instills such an emotion to where people will think they have no other choice than to be supportive of Bush in hopes that he will get his people through this terrible trauma.

Appeal to Faith


Especially prevalent in religions, the faith fallacy relies on the concept of a blind follower. In the poem above Jesus tells his follower that he was indeed there, even though he could not see him, and it felt otherwise, but because of his blind devotion, the follower accepts it as fact. His faith in the entity substitutes for any lack of factual evidence.

Appeal of Authority


When translated, this poster means "The Jew: Inciter of war, Prolonger of war." Simply because Hitler was a well-known authoritative figure and had a powerful position, his belief that the Jews were essentially "ruining Germany's chance for perfection" was blindly followed by his people. As in Hitler's case, the authority fallacy heavily relies on the authority to replace the logic; Hitler's personal beliefs were followed with no real evidence to back him up, but since he was in high office, everyone went along with him.