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media type="custom" key="27769339" =Fallacy: Appeal to Pity=

Appeal to pity Definition:

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Appeal to pity used when someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting Their audiences feelings of pity or guilt. ======

ex 1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2723710/A-lifetime-bad-choices-The-shocking-anti-obesity-advert-make-think-twice-long-term-eating-habits.html

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In this example, the video is using the mans heart attack to show his habit of unhealthy eating. It then goes through his past year by year and shows that at any point in his life he could have chosen to eat healthier. This is meant to guilt the audience into looking at their own lives an assessing their own health. The video is meant to make the person watching to feel bad, and by feeling bad, and or scared, they pay more attention to their own life and make healthier choices. ======

Ex 2) media type="youtube" key="A8evOzCKPp0" width="420" height="315"

This video is meant to target your emotions and make you feel sorry for the families in the video. The video depicts various teens who died in car accidents due to speeding, and is supposed to make the audience fell bad enough to better their own driving. It is very effective due to the use of families to make the audience think of how something like this might affect his/her family. It is a great example of tugging on the audiences emotions and a good example of the fallacy.