mtbturtle wrote:linford86 wrote:Can we post informal fallacies? If so, here's one:
Marijuana is completely natural (it's a plant!)
Anything that is completely natural is good (or healthy.)
Therefore, marijuana is good (or healthy.)
Fallacy of Accident?
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/accident.html
Nope! Any other takers?
Paris, the game is to stop logical fallacies. We all know that the argument I gave was bad (that's part of the game); the point is to find the fallacy type being committed. I could have, for example, made an argument like:
Smeggles are natural.
Anything that is completely natural is good.
Therefore, smeggles are good.
And the same fallacy would have been committed despite the fact that I have no idea what a smeggle is since it's a non-sense word I just invented.