Appeals to emotion is not necessarily a bad thing. It actually helps us understand what we really care about in life and what we chose in our decisions. Our emotions are there to make us feel safe and at the same time help us make good decisions with our hearts. But sometimes, the logical way should be the right decision. Even though you may have felt bad for those animals, you might not have enough money to give and at the same time not have enough money for your self.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Appeals to Emotion
Appeals to emotion is something that we all have experience. Whenever you use your emotions to judge or to make a decision, you are experiencing this type of appeals to emotion. People today use their emotions to make decisions all the time. For example: You see a commercial about how animals are being treated badly. And they say you can help them by donating money. This may be true but by showing you pictures and videos of animals being mistreated, they use your emotions to try and get you to donate money.
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Those commercials about mistreated animals certainly are heart-wrenching! They always show the cutest puppies and kittens. It makes me want to adopt them all! Then they play like sad Sarah Mclachlan music in the background lol... really depressing stuff! Sometimes the logical way can be the same as the emotional way though. Like when, I know abortion topics have been beat into the ground... but lets say person 1 is against it and person 2 is for it. Logically, getting rid of abortion procedures would never work. There would be an increase in back alley abortions, suicide rates would rise, and it would send women's rights back 100 years. This is the logical way and for someone is who really emotionally convinced that person 2 (pro-choice) is right, it fits the criteria for both an emotional and a logical argument. You could probably find a way to reverse the conclusion using different premises too for person 1's argument (pro-life).
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