Fallacies are arguments that are not very well supported or lacking of support. Fallacies are also basically false reasoning. These arguments can also be seen easily true even though they are sometimes not.
Bad appeal to common relief - definition:
If most of the group members of a certain group believe in a certain action to be good for them, then it is true. (Even though it is false)
Bad appeal to common relief - example:
When I went to college, people began to tell me that marijuana was much safer than alcohol. Everyone believed that rather than damaging the liver, marijuana only makes you hungry afterwards and that’s it. But even though everyone believed that marijuana was much safer, the argument was not very strong. Marijuana can damage you lungs and also damage your senses. You will begin to have a hard time remembering things as well as damage your sense’s in the eyes.
So even though mostly everyone believed that marijuana was safer than alcohol, their reasoning wasn't well thought out and everyone believed in it because everyone else did.
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