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DrFaroohk
08-18-2009, 02:10 PM
I can't remember what its called or even if it is one, but I will elaborate:

Guy #1: I think abortion should be legal.


Guy #2: Oh that's a great idea. Then EVERYONE will get abortions and in 20 years everyone in this country will be dead because you want everyone to get abortions. Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo!


What's that called?
Fire_on_High
08-18-2009, 02:19 PM
Hyperbole maybe?
DrFaroohk
08-18-2009, 02:21 PM
Sort of, but I think it's more on the grounds that Guy #1 isn't saying everyone should get an abortion, just that women should have the option available to them, and Guy #2 is attacking an entirely different position that Guy #1 didn't even mention. If that makes sense.....
Plaidman
08-18-2009, 03:46 PM
fallacy of necessity?
Broomjockey
08-18-2009, 05:18 PM
It's actually multiple fallacies. Appeal to ridicule, with the "oooooh noooooooooo," bit. Strawman, because he's making the other person's argument out to be "everyone should have to get abortions," or "everyone WILL get them," not "they should be available." Possibly shades of slippery slope, too. The last one I can't remember the name of, but it has to do with extending a situation past the point of the logical conclusion to absurdity.
Irving Patrick Freleigh
08-18-2009, 05:23 PM
Because every woman who becomes pregnant will kill the baby because she doesn't want it. No woman wants to raise a family these days. :rolleyes:

Some people need to just keep their mouths shut.
KiaKat
08-18-2009, 05:34 PM
extending a situation past the point of the logical conclusion to absurdity.

Argument ad absurdem.
Talon
08-18-2009, 06:30 PM
False dichotomy. If A is true, then B and only B must be true!
Broomjockey
08-18-2009, 06:59 PM
Argument ad absurdem.

YES! That's the one I was thinking of.
Soulstealer
08-18-2009, 07:28 PM
slippery slope?

From what I remember of that intro to logic class I took (weirdly enough some of it was enforced in a later political science classes) some fallacies can be categorized under more than one type of fallacy.
DrFaroohk
08-18-2009, 08:24 PM
Straw Man was the one I was thinking of, thanks! I probably could have used a better example .
Slytovhand
08-19-2009, 07:59 AM
Ummm ... there's a fallacy in there???


:p


Brief, basic lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy
Boozy
08-19-2009, 12:19 PM
Straw Man was the one I was thinking of, thanks! I probably could have used a better example .

DrFaroohk's question has been answered, so I'm going to close this before it heads down the "slippery slope" to Fratching. ;)