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Originally Posted by telkanuru 1) Yay, taking a limited case and using it to generalize an argument |
The statement was in response to this GENERAL statement by Loch:
"Since the introduction of maximum security prisons, it is possible to isolate the murderer without actually killing him/her. Therefore, the death penalty is no longer needed for its original purpose"
A single exception to such a universal statement is all that is needed to explode it.
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If we went by future possibilities, I may then be arrested because I might just murder all of my classmates who don't know who Orwell is/was  Try again?
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Fallacy of slippery slope and straw man exaggeration. Tsk.
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