What are some other common fallacies related to the appeal to emotion fallacy?
Appeal to emotion fallacy relates to several other fallacies, including:
- Appeal to fear or building an argument based on fear rather than evidence
- Appeal to pity or eliciting sympathy to support an argument
- Appeal to popularity (also ad populum fallacy) or arguing that something must be true or good because many people believe so
- Think of the children fallacy (also “What about the children?”) or attempting to garner sympathy for an argument by claiming that it supports the rights of children in some way
