________ is one that plays on a person's desire to be popular, accepted, or valued, rather than appealing to logically relevant reasons or evidence.

A. A bandwagon argument
B. The red herring fallacy
C. The straw man fallacy
D. The fallacy of appeal to pity


Answer: A

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