Entry 4_Lê Hồng Ngọc

Item 1

At the Question Period in the House of Commons Canada, Vic Toews Minister of Public Safety said "You can stand with us, or you can stand with the child pornographers”.


Analysis: 
False dilemma: in fact, there are not only 2 choices (you can choose to be neutral).

Item 2

Analysis:  Structural fallacy-denying the antecedent


- If you drink Stampede Light Plus, you will be smart. (If A, then B)
- If you don’t drink SLP, you won’t be smart. (If not A therefore not B)
However, you can still be smart without drinking SLP.
- The right structure:
If A, then B
Not B
Therefore, not A

Item 3

Thus, marriage - for all its flaws and miseries - has evolved to promote, support and nurture that basic necessary unit. If the state goes out of its way to make marriage attractive, it is because marriage is so difficult and, in many ways, unnatural. It is far more natural for humans, animals that we are, to enjoy gratification whenever and wherever than it is to settle for decades into a system of monogamy.

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Making homosexual unions equal to heterosexual unions - the superior natural order of which cannot be disputed - is not just a small step for equality. It is a gargantuan leap from a natural order that has served mankind throughout civilized human society.
We should look long and hard before we leap.

Analysis:  Content fallacies: Appeal to traditional. (people forbid gay marriage because it's against the civilized human society and basic necessary unit)
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Source: 
Item 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eeP6IVlLU
Item 2: http://www.extratv.com/2008/08/20/first-look-jessica-simpsons-stampede-ad/

 Item 3: http://www.thelomonacofamily.com/thoughts/other_peoples/gay_marriage-Kathleen_Parker.html