Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Logical Fallacie

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_817934a4-9ff0-11e0-a5d3-001cc4c002e0.html

This article committed the fallacies of ad populum. They go on saying that it seems right to kill the wolf population because  2/3 majority said that we need to. The ad populum fallacies says that because most people think something is right then it must be right. They seem to only mention the comments from the majority to prove that lots of people are for the wolf hunt and think the quota should be higher so you should to. The second fallacie they committed was post hoc. They said that if wolf population increases then elk herds will get smaller which may be true but they don't provide any facts that actually show or connect that's what is going to happen. I think the last fallacies I noticed in the paper was red herring. They go the whole time about the comments people made rather than really listing any facts as to why hunting wolves is ok.

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