-Ad hominem: "You just oppose this bill because you're like all other conservatives."
- Faulty causality: "Because he was the president during a period of economic prosperity, his decisions must have caused that prosperity."
B) Example from a text.
"In Moby-Dick" Starbuck tries to distract Ahab from his monomania with evocations of family life in Nantucket. Under the spell of "a cruel, remorseless emperor" --his own single-mindedness -- Ahab stays his fatal course. Ahab's doom comes from his undistractibility."
This article attempts to defend distracted minds, viewing it as the more healthy alternative to obsessiveness. However, this quote supplies a false analogy as it equates focus with mania. A focused mind when it comes to activities such as reading is necessary for acquiring information and is not the same as being obsessed to the point of psychological disturbance.
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