Week 6 Post
Logical fallacies are the silent killer to any good
argument. They can be a spoken mistake or part of a manufactured scheme. Either
way, when you catch a rhetor in on, odds are his argument is going to go south
quickly. A logical fallacy is a part of speech, conversation, or argument that
just doesn’t make sense. It makes a point that can’t be supported by fact or,
worse, logic.
Beyond just one or two chapters of the book, I’m a believer
in the fact that books like these are one big logical fallacy. As we discussed
in class, Eating Animals is trying to
persuade people to not eat meat, or possibly eat less of it. It is disguised as
book that is meant to educate consumers but it’s merely on a campaign to stop
the mass production and consumption of meat in the United States. Now, that’s
all well and good and I am more than willing to hear about a solution to the
increasing dietary issues of the United States and putting an end to animal
cruelty. But why, if this is such a pressing issue in the United States, are we
made to pay $19.99 for a stack of paper full of information that could easily
be presented online, to more people, for free? It doesn’t add up to me. We have
to pay for the information to save the American people? Sounds like a corporate
scheme, rather than a passionate author trying to make a difference in the world.
Eating Animals as
a whole is a logical fallacy.
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