Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Logical Fallacies
In the clip, there are a lot of logical fallacies. The chart depicting how the rate of leprosy has increase and will continue to increase till 2015 is a good example of a logical fallacy. They chart is depicting that all of human kind will one day have leprosy and your fingers will fall off. I think its just a comical way to scare people. Like they did with the bird flu, or the swine flu. The magazine companies want you to pick up and buy their magazine, so they put scary headlines on the front to catch your attention. They try to make you believe that what they are saying is true through logical fallacies. Another logical fallacy in the video is that, immigrants are the reason for the return of leprosy and other diseases in the United States. Why this is a fallacy is, because they are comically portraying, that because one of a few cases have been documented among immigrants of leprosy, that they were the ones to bring it in. It seems to me like America just wants someone to point the finger at. The clip even stated how and why this information is irrelevant with them stating, that leprosy has been in the U.S. for 30 years with over 7,000 cases. Another fallacy they make is that illegal immigrants are bring guns, and gangs into our country. Guns and gangs were in our country long before illegal Mexican immigrants came into our country. It has been a huge problem for years and years. I found the clip very funny and very accurate on how our government like to "point the finger" at anyone else but themselves.
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