Appeal to extremes? Absurdity?

I just had a situation come up where a person said "But you can't be 100% sure  that there is no possibility of this" well, no, I can't be sure that the earth won't get hit by an asteroid and we're all wiped out tomorrow either, so they're perh...

Logical implication and evidence

From what I’ve read on Wikipedia, a valid logical implication is only when P is a sufficient condition for Q. So if something is a cat, it logically implies that it’s an animal. This also means that correlation does not imply causation s...

"Why is stealing wrong? Well, first of all, staling is taking another person's property. Second, taking another person's property is impermissible. That's why stealing is wrong."

what fallacy is the above?

"Why is stealing wrong? Well, first of all, staling is taking another person's property. Second, taking another person's property is impermissible. That's why stealing is wrong."

"Old" Way of Doing Things

There is an advertisement (at least, one), where it is stated that a new, 'bunyon', treatment, is better than the "old" way of, 'surgery'.  What type of fallacy is it when some, thing, is included in the argument that is not a real, or related...

Is asking for better evidence moving the goalposts?

I've gotten into arguments with friends about whether or not certain opinions are popular. (For example, whether or not anime is popular in the US, whether or not certain video games are popular, or whether or not people think suicide is funny.) I'v...

Is saying that people dying from disease isn't as bad as people dying in a mass shooting an "Appeal to Nature?"

I've often complained about how nobody seems to care that hundreds of people are dying from disease, yet everyone makes a big stink about people dying from mass shootings. After pointing this out, some tried to justify it by saying people dying from...

Help. Is this a fallacy and if so, what is it called?

So, you are winning an argument. Then, as the other person starts to realize that they are wrong, instead of just admitting the fact, they instead try to brush it all off like they never actually cared in the first place and further imply that you a...

Is it fallacious to say that liberalism is the reason some cities have high murder rates?

I've seen a lot of right wingers imply that the reason places like Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis have the highest murder rates in the country is because they are "liberal cities." I personally think this is fallacious reasoning, even if I don't kn...

I thought of a fallacy

I was thinking about atheists and theists and this kind of thing came up in my head. "If a theist says 'Oh my god' in exclamation and the existence of god is contrary to scientific knowledge, then therefore atheists should say, 'Oh my science' ". ...