Week2

Logical fallacies are an essential part of persuasive speech and creating arguments. In Kent chapter 6 he explains all of the different types of logical fallacies. There are quite a few logical fallacies and some of them are similar, but all of them are not ethical ways to present an argument.

In a website http://www.logicalfallacies.info/ , they explain that the ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others, and to avoid them in one’s own arguments, is both valuable and increasingly rare. Fallacious reasoning keeps us from knowing the truth, and the inability to think critically makes us vulnerable to manipulation by those skilled in the art of rhetoric.
This website explains more in depth what logical fallacies are, and some people use them in different types of speech.

I see a lot of these logical fallacies every day in advertisements and people's speech. In the vote or die campaign they were using argumentum ad baculum. Most car comercials use argumentum ad novitam to say that their car is bigger and better than the others. One of the most common fallacies I see are the Bandwagon fallacies. When advertisments use professional athletes or famous actors to sell their products they are doing this. They are trying to send a message that because these famous people use the product everyone else should as well.

Logical fallacies are a confusing concept for me to understand. I know they are bad and we shouldn't normally use them because it is unethical, but it's weird because they surround us in our every day life. They aren't always bad because using them to convince people to support a cause could be a good thing, it's just bad because they are very misleading.