Friday, July 22, 2011
Appeal to Emotion
Often appealing to emotions while arguing with people may seem to work and it is effective it is considered a fallacy. People use emotions to argue because if you make them feel good they will want to like you. If you make them feel angry towards your opponent they will want to side with you. The best is persuading people to help with a cause you are fighting for and making them feel bad for the people or things that are affected by the cause, like the ads on t.v. that show hungry kids in Africa or the puppies that have no home and have been abused. Emotions really help in these arguments because people see how bad these kids and animals have it and they want to help because they feel bad that they live comfortably but these victims don't. This is not something you'd want to use because it is actually a fallacy.
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Very good job with this post. I liked how you put it so it was easy to understand. I also liked how you organized your post by starting off explaining what you were going to talk about then explain what it meant and then went into your example. Your example was a good one to use because it is on the television a lot and it is true that the homeless animal commercials do make you feel sad and want to adopt these animals. Very good job on this post and keep up the good work!
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