Blog #3
August 31, 2011
1. The importance of evaluating information on the fallacies we studied yesterday is that we need to know these strategies so that we ourselves do not get tricked. For example, if someone is selling a product and the advertisement states that it will make you more popular. I’m not going to buy something just for that reason. Although it may appear relevant to another person.
2. Some instances where some of the fallacies are considered “acceptable” are when they are true and non-harmful to the consumer.