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  2. Appeal to fear - Wikipedia

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    This fallacy has the following argument form: Either P or Q is true. Q is frightening. Therefore, P is true. The argument is invalid. The appeal to emotion is used in exploiting existing fears to create support for the speaker's proposal, namely P. Also, often the false dilemma fallacy is involved, suggesting Q is the proposed idea's sole ...

  3. Fearmongering - Wikipedia

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    For example, official warnings about the risk of terrorist attacks have led to increased support for the proposed policies of US Presidents. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Collective fear is likely to produce an authoritarian mentality , desire for a strong leader , strict discipline , punitiveness , intolerance , xenophobia , and less democracy , according to ...

  4. Slippery slope - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] When the initial step is not demonstrably likely to result in the claimed effects, this is called the slippery slope fallacy. This is a type of informal fallacy , and is a subset of continuum fallacy , in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B.

  5. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    Logical Fallacies, Literacy Education Online; Informal Fallacies, Texas State University page on informal fallacies; Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies (mirror) Visualization: Rhetological Fallacies, Information is Beautiful; Master List of Logical Fallacies, University of Texas at El Paso; Fallacies, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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  7. Letters: Stop the scare tactics about the IRS, Sen. Scott ...

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    Stop trying to scare us, senator.” The Editorial Board is correct to call out Sen. Rick Scott for his fear-mongering. As an IRS employee in Miami, I applaud the Aug. 26 editorial, “IRS isn’t ...

  8. D.A.R.E. didn’t work. How can school programs actually keep ...

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    While it’s now widely accepted that the fear-based tactics that were at the center of the old D.A.R.E model aren’t effective, there is no consensus on what a program that actually keeps kids ...

  9. Propaganda techniques - Wikipedia

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    By creating a "label", "category", or "faction" of a population, it is much easier to make an example of these larger bodies, because they can uplift or defame the individual without actually incurring legal-defamation. Labeling can be thought of as a sub-set of guilt by association, another logical fallacy. [24] [unreliable source?]