There are many types of Appealing to emotion. One of the types that the book talked about was appealing to spite. Appealing to spite is when you make two wrongs into a right! This is a complicated principal because it involves making to actions that are both wrong and making them cancel out just so to make the actions equal or right. Though this could be a fallacy at times sometimes this concept can be used in an argument or in real life. An example of the appeal to spite concept would be.
Boy: Dad can I buy a motorcycle
Dad: No you cant it’s to dangerous I am already going to buy a new car for myself, and your get nothing
Boy: Well to Bad for you I just spent all the money on a gambling trip to Vegas
The boy and the father both did wrong things that eventually ended up with two wrongs that eventually canceled each other. We see this concept happen everyday with our overseas relations and military reactions, as well as with movies where a bad guy kills someone and the hero has to get revenge and kill him to make everything even again.
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