A) Identify the fallacy in each of the following statements. Choose only 1 answer for each question. b) For each question, explain why the statement is illogical without giving a definition of the fallacy in your answer. Each question is worth 2 marks.
1. Did the pollution that your company caused increase or decrease your profits?
2. There are two types of people in this world: the rich and the fools. Do you want to get rich or do you want to remain a fool?
3. The check bounced because there weren’t sufficient funds in the account.
4. I know one union representative who is an unscrupulous person. I wouldn’t trust any of them if I were you.
5. Husbands cheat on their wives because they are unhappy with them. If they weren’t unhappy, they would not cheat.
6. Today it is abortion, but tomorrow it will be the mentally ill, and then the infirm and the aged—or anyone else considered undesirable.
7. What are your views on the government’s paltry efforts to provide assistance to Bahamians during this pandemic?
8. His daughter’s marriage must have worried him. He lost weight and his hair began to turn grey after the wedding.
9. Susan: Are you going hiking this weekend? James: I don’t want to die falling off of a rock. Susan: But you can die falling in a bathtub too.
10. Would you rather be right or happy?