Question #2

For this blog post, we were asked to work with one of the excercises presented to us on page one hundred ninety five in the Epstein book. There were a few examples to choose from but i am choosing to work with number six. This example says to give an example of an appeal to spite that invokes what someone believes and is it a good argument? The only real example i can think of for this question would be the people in politics. I will use the presidential election as my example for this blog post. Presidential candidates always state what they believe and what they stand for when they are campaigning for election. Then, the other candidate gets his turn and before he even states what he is all about, he will usually rip what the other candidate had said and try to make him look stupid. That is just the way things work in politics. You are trying to make your opponent lose more than you are trying to win. Usually those arguments are good arguments