Appeal To Emotion

An appeal to emotion is a fallacy which uses the manipulation of the recipient's emotions, rather than valid logic, to win an argument. The 'Appeal to Emotion' fallacy assumes that truth and positive emotions are aligned.^[1] For example, homosexual activists arguing for same-sex "marriage" know that they cannot win on logic, so they play on the listeners' emotions to sway the listeners' judgment.

Appeals to emotion include:

• Appeal to disgust
• Appeal to envy (popular among wealth-redistributionist liberals)
• Appeal to fear
• Appeal to hatred
• Appeal to pity (popular among militant homosexuals)
• Appeal to pride (in which appeal to emotion overlaps with another fallacy, appeal to personal interest)
• Wishful thinking

References[edit]

1. ↑ [1]

Links[edit]

• Emotional Appeal - from the Fallacy Files