Argumentum ad Fastidium - FT#123
Fallacious Trump
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A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning that results in bad or invalid arguments. This week we look at argumentum ad festidium, also known as the argument from disgust. It's where someone says that because they personally are disgusted by something, find something unpleasant, that implies that that thing is therefore either factually or morally wrong. So our first example comes from Trump talking about Japan and them accepting exports from the US. He seems to think that Kobe beef is beef that's just been left out and is rotted. And if the US ever wanted to export beef or cattle to Japan, I don't know if they would do it when the beef was dead and it was beef, or
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