Now that the semester is fully underway, we'll have a variety of posts on ethical topics more frequently.
Here's a nice political cartoon highlighting the informal fallacy of "snob appeal."
Of course, with the elections drawing near, informal fallacies of all kinds will be coming out in spades from nearly all politicians. It is frustrating... rather than address each others arguments it has actually become more common to observe them respond with some kind of evasive informal fallacy. Just watch how many ad hominems you can count in any political speech. And watch how few actual arguments you will hear for the few positions they actually do take.
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