Charlie: Fast food is filled with salt, fat, and added sugars. We need better regulation of the industry.Bob: That may be, but y
ou're such a hypocrite! saw you devour Triple-Baconator, super-sized fries, and 64 ounces of soda yesterday. A) Slippery Slope: Exaggeration ir the likely consequences of an action, designed to show that a misstep today could result in a disaster.
B) Faulty Causality: Incorrect assumption that one event caused another event. Correlation does not imply causation.
C) Appeal to False Authority: Presenting an unqualified person or institution as a source of credible information.
D) Ad Hominem: In Latin, this means to the man. When you attach a person’s character instead of the quality of his/her ideas. Tu quoque is a specific type of ad hominem when you basically call someone a hypocrite instead of debating his/her ideas.
