Human Person and Logical Fallacies
When we choose to put ourselves in to the public, we must expect to receive so much criticism. You will soon find that people will go out of their way just to prove you wrong, and they will use anything they can think of, even hurt you emotionally. Of course, people who often insist upon hurting a person while avoiding the real argument that person presents find fault in his or her conduct or character. This personal attack is the classic fallacy know as argumentum ad hominem or simply"attacking the person."Ad hominem attacks may or may not be true. The point is that an ad hominem is logically fallacious because insults and even true negative facts about the opponent's personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of your opponent's arguments or assertions.
Logical fallacies are arguments that have no meaning or unreliable. Ad hominem is one of the best and most used fallacy so I made it as an example. Some people even believe that some logical fallacies can be used as an actual argument. For example the famous Argumentun ad Populum. Celebrities advertising products they know nothing about but the watchers believe it because he/she is popular. To stop falling for logical fallacies we must ask ourselves. Is the argument related to the topic? If so is it backed up by real evidence?
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