Examples Of Logical Fallacies

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Logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is dependent on flawed logic. The connection to the 2016 election is one of the Democratic Party candidates, Bernie Sanders. Sanders uses a faulty comparison for his free college plan. He compares countries like Sweden and America to develop his plan, but the countries are very different and this comparison is inaccurate and misleading. He should be using countries like Europe to compare to America because they have more in common. Sander’s believes that in a developing country such as America, education should be a right for everyone no matter their social class. However, his logic is flawed because he is basing his logic off of countries like Sweden whose population consists of 9 million while the United …show more content…

An ethical fallacy makes it so that someone’s authority gives them some type of credibility. The connection to the 2016 election is to Donald Trump who is currently the Republican front runner for the presidential race. Trump often uses the guilty by association under the ethical fallacies to back up his claims. He often generalizes immigrant’s legal or not because of past events that have affected Americans poorly. Earlier this year, Trump made a comment about letting any immigrants from another country into Americas boarders, and how if they are let in more terrorist attacks will happen. However, after the tragic attack in San Bernardino, California he says, “A total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” (Huffington Post Donald Trump). With statements like these, he is generalizing Muslim immigrants into being potential terrorist, and if he had his way he would be robbing people from their dreams of staring a new life away from the violence. The people who have no affiliation with a terrorist group are being punished for something that is out of their control and when they try to take control of their situation, they cannot because they are thought to be terrorist and makes them guilty by

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