Logical fallacies and their applications

¶ … homosexuals can be 'married' is absurd, since marriage is, by definition, a union between a man and a woman."

Appeal to Ignorance: "All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe, as an article of faith, that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that its complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did."

Adhomenen: "I think any [philosophy] book directly supported by NAMBLA should not be available to the public by any means. [because] First off, NAMBLA was involved with funding an orphanage in Thailand that allowed grown men to rape and molest the children who lived there. NAMBLA was also found guilty of supplying "preparation and purpose" to a man accused of raping a child in Ohio. A few NAMBLA members recently raped and murdered a child in Massachusetts. The boy's body was raped, murdered and dumped in a river, and both of the men who committed this act were NAMBLA members."

4. Appeal to Force: "WHY REGISTER? [for the draft] [in order to] Keep your future free of roadblocks. Registration is required for young men to stay eligible for:

Most Federal jobs and jobs with the United States Postal Service;

Federal student loans and grants;

State student aid (in most States), and even admission to some state schools;

Job training benefits;

United States citizenship for male immigrants seeking citizenship."

5. Appeal to Pitty: "Listening to all of this I turned and looked down at the little Maltese named Kato. But he is so ugly I thought. He isn't even friendly.

He growled and grumbled even when we looked at him. She went on and told us that illness, age and non-productivity would end the life of many either by drowning in a fifty five gallon drum, gun or sold to a cull auction."

6. False Dilema: "If we couldn't use animals, wouldn't we have to test new drugs on people?"

7. Straw Man: (post) "the majority of abusers (physical, sexual or emotional) were themselves abused. And that is the cycle that I am saying needs to stop." reply) I work with Developmentally Disabled individuals, some who have been abused in horrible ways. Some of these individuals could never think of abusing someone like they have been abused, so although the cycle you speak of needing to be stopped does occur at times, it does not mean that it will occur.

Thos that have been abuse sexually does not mean they will be abusive sexually later in life.There is a sexual deviant cycle, but that is not what you are refering to. The cycle you speak of really does not exist.