Wow! Did you see that teenager run that stop sign? Teenage drivers are really pathetic.

Drinking Age

Many people think if your old enough to fight you should be old enough to drink. Is this a weak analogy? I could see it being one because taking responsibility to protect your own country is very different from allowing an age group to do something ...

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how we can respond to each fallacy, I will work as a lawyer what books you recommend 

Is there a fallacy for this?

A -> B -> C -> D A becomes B, B becomes C, C becomes D, therefore D=A EX: The first life came from the ocean, therefore we are all aquatic EX2: Humans originated in Africa, therefore we are all African    

Naturalistic/Moralistic Fallacies

I have started a hobby of posting about fallacies in my social media feeds because I see a pandemic of bad reasoning in the world.  I have been wanting to post about the naturalist/moralistic fallacies but I would like some other fallacyophiles...

Group Generalisations and Standards

Another identity politics question. Sorry, and I know these are flamebait, but...I see this commonly used as a justification for treating members of groups differently. It starts with some vague generalisation of said group (e.g. their motives), and...

Consensus among historians about the existence of Jesus - authority fallacy?

Many times we've heard arguments that say Jesus existed because there's a consensus among historians that he did exist. Is there any logical fallacies in this reasoning? Appeal to authority? Appeal to consensus? I would argue that a consensus in and...

McNamara "fallacy"

It is stated that focusing purely on quantitative data in a complex debate is often misleading as it overlooks factors best measured by qualitative data, which may also be essential to forming a judgement. However, don't many quantitative factors&n...

Race realism debate

Disclaimer: race realism obviously A debate I witnessed earlier today: P1: Black people commit the majority of crime, because despite making up 13 percent of the population they commit over 52 percent of the crime. Therefore they are inherently vi...

Weak Analogy? If you support transgender, to be consistent, you should support people who wish to identify as another race.

I realize this gets into some philosophy/politics/science, but I am curious what the members think on this topic. The claim is that this is a weak analogy , thus fallacious. Agree? Disagree? To what extent?