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.Don't give me reasons where feelings are concerned; I can't be argued out of my feelings.
What will be an ideal response?
This interesting remark is more complex than it looks. It's probably true that a person-at least sometimes-can't do much about his or her feelings. But this issue is different from the issues of whether a person should act on those feelings and whether the feelings themselves are proper, appropriate, based on fact, and so on. That a person has certain feelings, and may be stuck with them, is irrelevant to the other two questions.
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