Logical Fallacies Practice Write the letter(s) from the box that correctly identify the type of fallacy in each statement. Some may be used more than once. ______All of those movie stars are really...

Logical Fallacies Practice

Write the letter(s) from the box that correctly identify the type of fallacy in each statement. Some may be used more than once.

1. ______All of those movie stars are really rude. I asked Ryan Gosling for his autograph in a restaurant once, and he told me to get lost.

2. ______What's the big deal about the early pioneers killing a few Indians in order to settle the West? After all, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

3. ______Either you buy a large car and watch it guzzle away your paycheck, or you buy a small car and take a greater risk of being injured or killed in the event of an accident.

4. ______There is no reason to listen to the arguments of those who oppose school prayer, for they are the arguments of atheists!

5. ______If the Supreme Court allows abortion, next thing you know they'll allow euthanasia, and it won't be long before society disposes of all those persons whom it deems undesirable.

6. ______I wore my lucky red shirt when I took the test, so that is probably why I did so well on the test.

7. ______Guns are like hammers—they're both tools with metal parts that could be used to kill someone. And yet it would be ridiculous to restrict the purchase of hammers—so restrictions on purchasing guns are equally ridiculous.

8. ______Grading this exam on a curve would be the most fair thing to do. After all, classes go more smoothly when the students and the professor are getting along well.

9. ______You should fly an American flag off your front porch. It’s the patriotic thing to do.

10. ______I'm moving to Connecticut because it is the richest state in the nation and I'm tired of being poor.

11. ___ef___If you do poorly in Ms. Lawrynovicz’s class, you will start doing poorly in other classes too. The first thing you know, you'll end up on probation, and then you will get kicked out of college. Without a college degree, you won't get a good job, and you'll starve to death. So you had better do well in Ms. Lawrynovicz’s class.

12. ______Why should you feel guilty for seeking your own happiness when that's what everyone else is doing, too?

13. ______A recent Time Warner commercial suggested that you should stick with cable because “DirectTV hates puppies.”

14. ______Ingibjörg: "We should clean out the closets. They are getting a bit messy."
    
    Böðvar: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do we have to clean them out every day?"

Ingibjörg: "I never said anything about cleaning them out every day. You just want to keep all your junk forever, which is just ridiculous."