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The mother's claim is not fallacious at all, she's merely warning her son of a possible danger. A danger that can be medically substantiated: See Energy-Drink Habit Sends Man to ER with Heart Problems shar.es/aa5fU6 via @LiveScience
The son however responds with several notable fallacies: Weak analogy. Non sequitur, a whole school of red herrings and an irrelevant goal or function. (A fallacy of distraction that irrelevantly critiques an idea for failing to do something it never intended to do) There's zero connection between the mother's warning about energy drinks to the son's aspiration for marriage. |
| answered on Friday, Nov 30, 2018 11:52:39 AM by mchasewalker |
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I think the mother has committed the fallacy of converse accident and the son petitio principii
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| answered on Sunday, Dec 02, 2018 05:10:01 AM by lun |
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