Sunday, October 23, 2011

logical fallacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4LWJ1l6onU&feature=related
In this video that is promoting Ron Paul, there are several logical fallacies being committed. First off in the video Ron Paul is being praised as the best candidate for the upcoming presidential election of 2012. He is being portrayed in a light that only makes him look like a political genius. The video only lets people that love and support him share their opinion. One of the first fallacies i came across when I was watching this youtube video on facebook in the library was false ethos. The people that were talking and commentating on Ron Paul's capability to run this country effectively were not people that were experts on politics. The people were just your every day Joe giving their opinions on a certain issue.
The second logical fallacy that was committed was a bandwagon fallacy. The people were saying that because all of the people that knew what they were talking about in politics like Ron Paul that you should like him to, and also that you as an American citizen should go vote for him in the upcoming election. That is a logical fallacy because not everyone agrees with what Ron Paul is saying. Some people might believe in the war in Iraq and want to vote for a candidate that would more likely stick it out in the war and leave our troops over there. But if we leave the troops over there most people think that it would be basically like giving up the war. So thus they would not want to vote for Ron Paul in the upcoming election in 2012.

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