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PART 2: COMMON SOURCES OF PROBLEMS
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10. Ethics, Science, and Pseudoscience
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11.Ethical Fallacies
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1. Ad hoc rationalization
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2. Ad hominem or ad feminam (bullshit. ad hominem.)
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3. Affirming the consequent
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4. Appeal to ignorance (ad ignorantium)
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5. Argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam
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6. Begging the question (petitio principii)
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7. Composition fallacy
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8. Denying the antecedent
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9. Disjunctive fallacy
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10. Division fallacy or decomposition fallacy
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11. Existential fallacy
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12. False analogy
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13. False continuum
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14. False dilemma
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15. False equivalence
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16. Genetic fallacy
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17. Golden mean fallacy
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18. Ignoratio elenchi
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19. Mistaking deductive validity for truth
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20. Naturalistic fallacy
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21. Nominal fallacy
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22. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore on account of this)
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23. Red herring
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24. Slippery slope (the camel's nose fallacy)
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25. Straw person —bullshit. Straw man
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26. You too! (tu quoque)
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12. Pitfalls in Ethical Judgment
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1. Substitute the general for the specific
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2. Use a conditional frame for consequences
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3. Use denied motivation as misdirection
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4. Use the abstract language of technicalities
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5. Use the passive voice
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6. Make unimportant by describing what did not occur
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7. Replace intentional unethical behavior with the language of
accidents, misfortune, and mistakes
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8. Smother the events in the language of attack
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9. Using language to generate empathy
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13. Language and Ethics
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14. Ethics Placebos, Rationalizations, and Excuses
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