Identify and explain the fallacies of relevance in the following passages: A national organization called In Defense
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Identify and explain the fallacies of relevance in the following passages:
A national organization called In Defense of Animals registered protest, in 1996, against alleged cruelty to animals being sold live or slaughtered in Chinese markets in San Francisco. Patricia Briggs, who brought the complaint to the city’s Animal Welfare Commission, said: “The time of the crustaceans is coming. You’d think people wouldn’t care about lobsters, because they aren’t cuddly and fuzzy and they have these vacant looks and they don’t vocalize. But you’d be surprised how many people care.” To which response was given by Astella Kung, proprietor of Ming Kee Game Birds, where fowl are sold live: “How about the homeless people? Why don’t the animal people use their energy to care for those people? They have no homes! They are hungry!”
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Introduction To Logic
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Authors: Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen, Victor Rodych