Ad misericordiam: This argument must be valid because there is suffering. As in "You must give up some of your property because that person has none of his own".
There were some screwy Roman philosophers. One of their favorites: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. I was going to leave it un-translated, but that's not playing fair. "Following this, therefore because of this."
Argumentum ab auctoritate ("It's true because the best professors of economics say so!")
And its close cousins:
Argumentum a gradis (literally, "from one's grades". The form of this is: "How dare you criticize a person of my talents? Look at my grades, and look at your grades, and let's see who's qualified!")
Argumentum a populo (argumentum a numeris, argumentum a multitudine): "You're in the minority. The majority can't be wrong." As if truth were subject to a vote.
My favorite one is "middle ground." IMO, there is no nobility in "reaching across the aisle" when it results in surrenderihng freedoms or wrecking the economy (that includes ditching jobs for the "climate change" we've always had). And try to seek "middle ground" with a Muslim suicide bomber who will kill you for not converting from Christianity or for being born a Jew.
Henry Hazlitt's "The Broken Window Fallacy"...seeing only the immediate effects and groups' impacted by government policy while ignoring long term effects and other groups involved.
It's not really a fallacy, but one of the worst reasoning errors that comes natural to us all is to pick a conclusion and then look for evidence to support it.
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People who take Government handouts are Moochers.
Ayn Rand accepted Social Security and Medicare.
Ayn Rand is a Moocher.
I hear this from Rand haters from time to time.
Only solid objects may strike me.
Lightning in not sold.
Therefore, I cannot be struck by lightning.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
I was going to leave it un-translated, but that's not playing fair.
"Following this, therefore because of this."
Argumentum ab auctoritate ("It's true because the best professors of economics say so!")
And its close cousins:
Argumentum a gradis (literally, "from one's grades". The form of this is: "How dare you criticize a person of my talents? Look at my grades, and look at your grades, and let's see who's qualified!")
Argumentum a populo (argumentum a numeris, argumentum a multitudine): "You're in the minority. The majority can't be wrong." As if truth were subject to a vote.
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." Ayn Rand
As in most serious: Misericordium - Appeal to Pity, because it is such a part of Altruism.
When you say 'favorite"...???
But I would say: Argument...
from ignorance
from silence
to moderation