Logical Fallacies and Advertising Persuasive Techniques

1.) If you do poorly on your essay, then you will start doing poorly in math, too. The first thing you know, you will end up failing classes and never being able to get into college. Without getting into college, you will most likely flip burgers at a fast food joint and never be able to live a happy life. So, you better do well on your essay.

2.) What's all the big deal about car emissions ruining the atmosphere? After all, you can't make cookies without some sugar.

3.) Why should you feel guilty for eating so much fast food when that's what everyone else is doing?

4.) Loving others is right because it feels good, and it feels good because you are loving others!

5.) Pencils are like swords – they're both tools held in our hands that can destroy someone, and yet it would be ridiculous to restrict the purchase of pencils – so restrictions on purchasing swords are equally ridiculous.

6.) I'm moving to Hollywood because all the movie stars live there and I am tired of being just a regular person.

7.) If you give a mouse a cookie, then the mouse will want a glass of milk. Before long, the mouse will want another glass of milk and then another cookie until you don't have any milk or cookies left.

8.) You asked what I’ve done to counteract global warming. In my first two years in office, we’ve had lower than average temperatures.

9.) Three out of four of my friends have Verizon Wireless as the cellular phone provider. Verizon Wireless must be the best product.

10.) I wore my lucky necklace the night we won our fist game, so we must have won our first game because of me wearing my necklace.

11.) All of the teachers are really rude. I asked Mr. Hepting for help once after school and he told me to get out of his class.

12.) Either you like Kraft Macaroni 'n Cheese, or you are a terrorist.

13.) The teacher says that turning in your essay on time will build good habits for the future when you join the workforce. She has never been a principal before and has no idea what she is talking about.

14.) Johnny: "We should clean the bathrooms. They are getting to be disgusting."

Ally: "Why? We just cleaned the bathroom two weeks ago. Do we have to clean it every time we use it?"

Johnny: "I never said we needed to clean it every time we use it. You just want to be lazy on the couch forever and let your home decay, which is ridiculous."

15.) The gym offers a variety of health activity classes. I don't want to be a dancer. I won't go to the gym.