The ad hominem fallacy which is also known as attacking the person is the common initiation for mistakes when reasoning. Sometimes this fallacy is based off of when the qualities of a person making a claim are often confused with the qualities of the claim itself. We generally assume when we see certain negative qualities of someone that all things relating to that person would follow. The idea to consider when this fallacy is present …showed first 75 words of 1188 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1188 total…s and Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Though each of these situations is challenging, in no way do they indicate the disastrous results that are being predicted. References http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/blog/articles/culture/oldspeak-mj.asp http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-emotion.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth#First_television_advertisement http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html http://www.eff.org/patriot/