What is causal argument

Looking for examples of the slippery slope fallacy

Hey All, I'm making a resource for high school students to learn about the slippery slope fallacy and I'm looking for some real-life examples to use such as interviews, online articles or videos. Since I'm trying to make it broadly accessible, I'd ...

Appeal to Nature Fallacy?

"Black Americans should be able to wear their natural hair in the workplace because it grows out of their scalp." i.e. it's natural.  If this is a fallacy, would it be better to propose that there's often a double standard in the workplace. Ex...

Is this moving the goalposts

From here : At, around 15:31 James agrees with Dave (yikes, agreeing with at T R A N S P H O B E, kinda transphobic, James) that gender and sex are facts and troons don't have eggs, periods, and can't give birth. & Women don't have periods/ca...

Are “Ought” statements automatically dubious when used in Non-Evaluative Statements

I understand this is the Is-Ought Problem and I’ll give what I think is an example. person 1 makes the Normative Statement Person 2 makes the Positive Statement  1. The Filibuster is good Because it forces two sides to work together and...

Appeal to personal moral superiority?

I was in an argument about speed limits (again) and I was pointing out the sheer level of non-compliance frequently over 90% and as high as 97% as indicative that the speed limit was incorrect, I suppose this alone could be seen as argumentum ad pop...

Is there a fallacy involved here?

I recently got into a discussion with someone about defining veganism and they used a lot of formal logic to show my definition led to absurdities according to them. I had said my minimum definition would be ‘a position against commodifying an...

Is this person asking to substitute academic rigor with public opinion?

From here : If "gender-affirming care" is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm public opinion. In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, no...

What sort of fallacy is this?

From here : So, the votes of 75 percent of Oklahoma’s citizens are invalid, because the “emerging awareness” doctrine declares that 5,000 years of human tradition constitute “an arbitrary, irrational exclusion.” &nb...

Guns Are Designed to Kill Bad People?

In a video @  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=149148723912527  someone suggests that Ben Shapiro is hypocritical in opposing abortion but not supporting gun control. Shapiro replies that abortion kills babies, but "Guns are designed...