Emotional Arguments vs Logic

You can't leave me after 15 years just to go travel the world! Think of how our children would feel about their father abandoning them! How could you ever even think about doing this, you selfish bastard!!! Sunk cost fallacy Appeal to emotion Ad hominem

A crying, furious person argues with someone who wants to leave after 15 years, invoking their shared history, children, and insults. The calm person mentally labels each statement as a logical fallacy: sunk cost fallacy, appeal to emotion, and ad hominem. The joke is used when someone recognizes that an emotionally intense argument is logically flawed. EN: A crying, furious person argues with someone who wants to leave after 15 years, invoking their shared history, children, and insults. The calm person mentally labels each statement as a logical fallacy: sunk cost fallacy, appeal to emotion, and ad hominem. The joke is used when someone recognizes that an emotionally intense argument is logically flawed.

• @sillyposting / 301 2023-02-24