Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.It isn't so important how they're made or how long they last or how much they cost. These are the best jeans because they're incredibly popular right now. Sometimes I think you just don't understand style.
What will be an ideal response?
Peer pressure, if the issue is whether the jeans are the best. There is also a danger of begging the question here (the question of what criteria should be used to determine the best jeans). If the issue is simply what jeans should you wear to be like everybody else, then of course there's no fallacy at all-and no real need for the remark in the first place. And it may be that, as the speaker says, your authors just don't understand style.
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