In at least one well-developed paragraph (5-sentence minimum) discuss in your own words what fallacies are and why they are bad. After this paragraph, try to locate one example of a fallacy (in a meme, a brief video, an ad, etc.). Provide the link or the reference and discuss what fallacy it demonstrates and why. For the time being, please restrict yourself to obvious fallacies and avoid stepping into overly sensitive or politicized territory; this is not the time to pick a fight.
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Fallacies and Generation XY
Paragraph Defining Fallacies
Fallacies are a way of indirectly directing the reader to believing what you say in a bad way. There are 3 main groups with subgroups. The first groups is "logic," when you use facts and insensitive tricks to appeal to an audience, to sway their belief towards yours or at least offend them for a glorious moment. The 2nd method named was "ethos," when you try to affect someone's feelings of morality to be convinced towards yours, making them first feel a pang of guilt in hopes they will somehow be hypnotized over towards your success, in some way. The 3rd way is "emotional," when they act sort of like a "Hufflepuff" way, trying to appeal to someone like you are small, sweet, and innocent, to gain sympathy to get them to believe you in something you are trying to convince them of for some reason. All 3 ways attempt to poke and hit at how things are a certain way but in a bad way, which can either seem desperate or innocent. It is probably practiced very much in the way people live in day to day lives and in concrete examples such as in articles online or in politics.
Example of a Fallacy
I was hoping to find some reference to Generation Y, roughly 1986-1996, but they call people born around 1980-1995/2000 Millenials.
I found this article:
"Millennials: The Worst, Most Entitled, Most Spoiled Generation in the History of Humankind?"
https://www.alternet.org/2013/06/millennials-generation-y/
I know from experience that Generation Y, sometimes called Millenials, get by undetected. Baby Boomers are simply fixing up their mess by saying Generation Y was treated unfairly, though it is their fault, and by making Generation XY, which came right before, feel worse.
This article discusses the issue but in an unsuccessful way. They are using tricks of "logic" unsuccessfully. They are discussing the bad things about this generation, simply. They mention that they are unhealthy and at risk sexually. I think they are trying to impress their Baby Boomer parents by saying nothing is impressive, to side with them, and in the end they get the attention over Generation XY trying to live their life.
They did give a false idea that people of this age have people monitoring their lives since high school and maybe suggest some parents in older families haven't been as close. The idea is noticeably underdeveloped to me, and it seems that they are stating a fact rather than helping in more active, streamlined ways.
So, this article has a good topic but supports it in a wishy washy way. It's very important, and they are just being kind of meek in attitude but more like an "emotional" fallacy. However, I still think they are right, though others clearly don't. Maybe, they were just being too negative, in general, as this topic seems to go. You have to be more mature and convincing. I don't think they went far enough, neither. The article was a lot of work to read, when it should be more fun like a debate, so these articles are suspicious and watery, like they care but have no power nor enough background to turn on about it, like a regular person trying to blog but not really having the professional prowess then in that situation to make it appealing enough, neither.