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.Letter to the editor: "Should people on welfare be allowed to play the lottery? I say no. It's time we did something about the welfare rip-off in this country. I believe in charity for the poor, but free-loading parasites who are too lazy to get out and do an honest day's work-I say cut them off at the knees!"-North State Record

What will be an ideal response?


This piece of vitriol is certainly fallacious; it seems to have one foot in straw man and one in argument from indignation, though it doesn't fit neatly into either category.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Scientific revolutions and political revolutions are similar as

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Shu is __________

a. empathy b. loyalty c. ancestors d. the belief that people are fundamentally selfish

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