I hadn’t yet met someone I could truly call my best friend or really give my whole heart to but you changed everything for me you were that person.

And to end a wonderful weekend, you invited me to be a significant part of your world and thus our crazy relationship began.īefore you, I had never been swept off my feet, but then you came along and I was blindsided by love.

I was introduced to all of your friends and your drunken ways. In one weekend, we spent over 24 hours confined in a car together, subject to heart-to-hearts and victims to not-so-awkward silences. You showed me your world and I handed you my heart. The mentality 'it worked fine before, so why change it?' falls directly into this fallacy, and harms much more than it helps. In the above picture, we see represented the harsh reality of how hard it is to continue to move forward into a modernized world when we continue to have people who want it to stay the same. But the linked article shows you the instances from Trump's RNC acceptance speech where he specifically cherry-picked statistics like crime and immigration.Īppeal to Tradition - using tradition or cultural belief to suggest that something is true or accurate suggesting that, because something has been done a certain way, it must be the correct way. It is fairly obvious to anyone who fact checks that Donald Trump likes to cherry pick (to be honest, most politicians like to cherry pick. These and gay marriage are not at all mutually exclusive, which is why this line of argumentation is labeled as a 'slippery slope'.Ĭherry-picking - Taking a particular data set or collection of facts while ignoring others in order to make an argument that suits your particular case We know that, in all actuality, very few people would resort to things such as incest and bigamy. While it may sound fine as it leaves the mouth, it actually turns into a snowball effect. In the picture above, we see depicted a typical argument that was heard round the world when gay marriage was legalized (and may still be heard today). Slippery Slope - If A is allowed to happen, then B will eventually occur too. If they did, certainly something would be done about it (one would hope).

Not many, if at all, citizens of the United States wish to own a missile launcher in the backyard of their home. And people who think they should have a missile launcher in their backyard as a Constitutional right may not have that.' While providing vivid imagery, it is a wild exaggeration of what truly is going on in the realm of gun control advocacy. Strawman - The misrepresentation of an argument to make it easier to attackĪt MSNBC's Democratic Presidential Candidate's Forum, Bernie Sanders gave this quote: 'Very strong gun control advocates may not get everything they want.

Red herring fallacy in media