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*If we send in 100,000 troops, the next thing you know we'll be in a quagmire like Vietnam!
*If we send in 100,000 troops, the next thing you know we'll be in a quagmire like Vietnam!
*If we let gays get married, soon men will want to marry their kitchen appliances!
*If we let gays get married, soon men will want to marry their kitchen appliances!
*You are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community.... I say that any boob kin take and shove a ball in a pocket. And I call that sloth, the first big step on the road to the depths of degraday—I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then beer from a bottle. An' the next thing ya know, your son is playin' for money in a pinch-back suit. And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. One fine night, they leave the pool hall, headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry! Libertine men and scarlet women, and ragtime, shameless music that'll grab your son and your daughter with the arms of a jungle animal instink: mass-steria!<ref>Willson, Meredith (1957), "Trouble," from ''The Music Man''</ref>
*You are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community.... I say that any boob can take and shove a ball in a pocket. And I call that sloth, the first big step on the road to the depths of degraday—I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then beer from a bottle! An' the next thing ya know, your son is playin' for money in a pinch-back suit. And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. One fine night, they leave the pool hall, headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry! Libertine men and scarlet women, and ragtime, shameless music that'll grab your son and your daughter with the arms of a jungle animal instinct: mass-steria!<ref>Willson, Meredith (1957), "Trouble," from ''The Music Man''</ref>
This sort of argument is generally recognized as a [[logical fallacy]].
This sort of argument is generally recognized as a [[logical fallacy]].