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Logical Fallacies Demonstrate where you have experienced Logical Fallacies of some type in yourreal livesWe were recently watching television and a show was on about African-Americans committing violent crimes. A friend of mine said that violent crimes were committed by African-Americans while the white collar crimes were committed by the whites. This is not entirely the truth. Just because most of the prosecuted individuals of violent crimes were blacks and those for white collar crimes were white does not mean that they are the only or largest committers of those crimes.

This was simply a bandwagon fallacy. The fallacy of Ad Hominem is common in our house whether it is a personal family discussion or even when watching movie or news. My sister is especially the loudest and the first to condemn the speaker instead of the news they are delivering. The deliverer of the news is vehemently attacked for the news and any negativity about the message is directed towards him or her and not the message itself. Savannah Mason I totally agree with your examples especially about the ad hominem fallacy of the blacks and their crimes.

People totally focus on the wrong thing and attack the blacks. They fail to look at the larger picture and instead bring in the issue of racism and generalize about blacks and their crimes and this is totally wrong. Prabjyot Jhatu I agree with your explanation about people holding beliefs that are not true. I have also experienced the same issue with people believing that I am a bad person and am likely to become a security threat to them simply because I am a Muslim. I tell them it is just a religion like Christianity but they already have their beliefs which are not true at all.