INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Pet owners argue for a law to ensure that pet food is free of lethal contaminants. Apparently they are unaware that half the children of the world eat contaminated food and drink polluted water every day. Thousands of these kids die regularly from cholera. The nations of the world should unite to halt this ongoing tragedy. In
the mean time, we can forget about pets.
A) Argument against the person, abusive.
B) Complex question.
C) No fallacy.
D) Straw man.
E) Red herring.
E
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ultimately be unable to bear up under poverty, exile, and old age.
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