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Latest revision as of 04:43, March 17, 2025
An appeal to emotion is a fallacy which uses the manipulation of the recipient's emotions, rather than valid logic, to win an argument. The 'Appeal to Emotion' fallacy assumes that truth and positive emotions are aligned.[1] For example, homosexual activists arguing for same-sex "marriage" know that they cannot win on logic, so they play on the listeners' emotions to sway the listeners' judgment.
Appeals to emotion include:
- Appeal to disgust
- Appeal to envy (popular among wealth-redistributionist liberals)
- Appeal to fear
- Appeal to hatred
- Appeal to pity (popular among militant homosexuals)
- Appeal to pride (in which appeal to emotion overlaps with another fallacy, appeal to personal interest)
- Wishful thinking
References
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- Emotional Appeal - from the Fallacy Files