Tuesday, January 29, 2008
PCU was a very interesting movie and also very funny. The movie based upon the college lives of groups that form from the college students. This movie had such groups as The Pit, which was a rebellious clique that did not care for work and loved to rock and party. Other groups also followed by the so called Jerrytowns to the sexists. Many fallacies where pointed out throughout the first 40-50 minutes of this film and one fallacy has caught my attention. This was a scene where a group of vegetarians that believed eating meat and killing animals such as cows were not right and disgusting. Their protest was blocking the entrance to what seems to be a cafeteria. This fallacy would be the straw man because one of the several protest signs someone was carrying contained words such as "Do not eat meat because meat is murder." Just because people like the taste for meat and consume it, this particular group is disrespecting the person that eats meat's and calls them murderers. The person that likes to eat meat would not agree being called a murderer would be the group of protestors refute their position to judge that they are really murderers.
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