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RE: How To Debate On The Internet - Common Types of Logical Fallacies

in #life9 years ago (edited)

I thought of another one!

How about "Appeal to the Majority"

I remember my mother used to say, "If everybody else jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?"

As a general rule, the Majority is always wrong.

George Carlin did the mathematical work to back this up:

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

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Yes, this is one of logical fallacies. They call it "appeal to the people" or "appeal to the bandwagon" :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum