Technology
Ad hominem
”If we don’t restrict social media for teenagers we are basically saying that we don’t care about their mental health and we do want them to spent 24 hours a day glued to their screen and ignoring their real life entirely”
Straw man Fallacy
"If schools allow AI, students will stop thinking entirely, teachers will become obsolete, and within five years the entire education system will collapse."
The Slippery Slope Fallacy
“If you wait until you are older to travel, you might regret it for the rest of your life.“
Appeal to emotion
”Older people says that young people should wait to travel because they grew up believing that traveling is something you should do later in life, so their opinion must be wrong.“
Genetic Fallacy
“Their high prices increased due because they want money easy and quick”
False cause
Millions of parents, teachers, and experts accros the country. Agree that social media should be banned from everyone under 18 since the vast majority of people believe this is the best move. It is the best policy to implement.
Ad Populum/ Bandwagon
"AI proponents want robots to teach classes instead of humans, eliminating all personal interaction in schools."
The Straw Man Fallacy
“Everyone my age wants to travel, so traveling while you are young must be the best thing To do.”
”Do you care innocent children? If you truly love teenagers and want them to protected them from pain
you would support the total ban of social media”
Appeal to emotion
Black and white
Allowing a 15 year old to set up social media accounts, Is exactly as handing a teenager they keys to a loaded High speed sport car, without a any driving license. In both cases, you are putting a deadly device to a the hands of an inexperienced kid.
False analogy
"A few students cheated on exams using AI last year. Therefore, ALL students will cheat if AI is allowed in schools."
Hasty Generalization Fallacy
“I traveled when I was young and had amazing experience, so everyone who travels young will have a great experience.”
Hasty generalization
“Everyone doesn’t even know how to repair their laptops so why should we learn that if theres people doing it for us?”
Bandwagon
”My framework broke in just 3 months, and repairs are cheap. So all of them are cheap and unworthy”
“Famious tech billionarie and rocket engineer Elon Musk. Publicly stated that social media algorithms are ruining adolecense brains so we should take his words as absolute proof. That a total ban under 18 is necessary.“
Appeal to authority
"AI will steal students' creativity and turn them into mindless machines who can't think for themselves. We must ban it immediately.”
Appeal to Fear Fallacy
“If young people keep Waiting to travel, they’ll get jobs, have more responsibilities, and eventually never travel at all.”
Slippery slope
“70% of people prefers something assembled and easy to carry without a ton of explanations that makes it hard to repair it.“
Cherry picking
Slippery slope
“A study ocnducted in 2021 Found that 70% of teenagers. Feel overwhelmed by social media notifications which single handily proofs that these platforms Are harmful to adolescent and offers zero benefits.
Cherry picking
"Either we ban AI completely from schools, or we accept a future where education has no standards whatsoever."
False Dichotomy Fallacy
Cherry picking
"Schools worked perfectly fine for hundreds of years without AI, chalkboards, textbooks, and lectures built generations of successful people. If it wasn't broken for our grandparents, we shouldn't 'fix' it now."
Appeal to Tradition Fallacy