INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. The U.S. has a right to eradicate dictatorships wherever it finds them. Dictators crush the right of self-governance given by God to all of his children. Dictators suppress liberty and freedom. They sacrifice the lives of their people to satisfy their own corrupt aims and desires. Dictators are vile monsters! They embody the

power of Satan wherever they dwell. Down with dictatorships everywhere!

A) No fallacy.

B) Suppressed evidence.

C) Argument against the person, abusive.

D) Appeal to the people.

E) Appeal to unqualified authority.


D

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