If you do X correctly you will never make a mistake.

One of my jobs is operating a wood chipper.  Sometimes it gets clogged and takes an hour of painstaking work to unclog.  My boss told me that if I fed branches into the chipper correctly it would never get clogged.  This mostly sounds...

Abortion

I think the current understanding of "my body, my choice" is misplaced.  Pregnancy is not a choice, it is one of the possible consequences of choosing to have sex.  "My body, my choice" should be applied to the choice of having sex. What ...

Does this come off as a slothful induction?

From here : “National sex education standards right now for K-3 say that gender ideology, that those children need to know by third grade that you can be a boy or a girl, neither or both,” Descovich said. “That is very concerning...

What is causal argument

Looking for examples of the slippery slope fallacy

Hey All, I'm making a resource for high school students to learn about the slippery slope fallacy and I'm looking for some real-life examples to use such as interviews, online articles or videos. Since I'm trying to make it broadly accessible, I'd ...

Appeal to Nature Fallacy?

"Black Americans should be able to wear their natural hair in the workplace because it grows out of their scalp." i.e. it's natural.  If this is a fallacy, would it be better to propose that there's often a double standard in the workplace. Ex...

Is this moving the goalposts

From here : At, around 15:31 James agrees with Dave (yikes, agreeing with at T R A N S P H O B E, kinda transphobic, James) that gender and sex are facts and troons don't have eggs, periods, and can't give birth. & Women don't have periods/ca...

Are “Ought” statements automatically dubious when used in Non-Evaluative Statements

I understand this is the Is-Ought Problem and I’ll give what I think is an example. person 1 makes the Normative Statement Person 2 makes the Positive Statement  1. The Filibuster is good Because it forces two sides to work together and...

Appeal to personal moral superiority?

I was in an argument about speed limits (again) and I was pointing out the sheer level of non-compliance frequently over 90% and as high as 97% as indicative that the speed limit was incorrect, I suppose this alone could be seen as argumentum ad pop...

Is there a fallacy involved here?

I recently got into a discussion with someone about defining veganism and they used a lot of formal logic to show my definition led to absurdities according to them. I had said my minimum definition would be ‘a position against commodifying an...