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I was in my house watching the Panthers vs. Seahawks game. So this commercial came on about babies and how to protect them. The speaker/actor said that we should use a car seat that will protect the baby if an accident was to happen. This made me think "What if this happen to my family and my nephew or niece." The speaker had used a logical fallacy. The logical fallacy was Appeal to Fear. This really scared me because I wasn't used to being afraid about a commercial. He wanted to also me and my family to feel like we were left out also. They had a director come in and display the car seat and say "Everyone has it and do it for your children."


The argument made logical sense, because they were trying to get their main point out to the audience which was me and my family. They wanted to draw more consumers to their project, which in this case it was the car seat and the protection of the baby. One part about the commercial I didn't understand was why the actor was used. For instance, most commercials use actors so that the can get people jealous, in this case the actor was not needed because the actor didn't do anything but say to words. Their rhetoric technique was very affective. When they use the Appeal to Fear, it scared me and my family because we weren't sure which car seat was the best for our family and we had to think twice about it. It was very persuasive because the very next day my mom went out to get the car seat. Between me and you, the car seat is very dumb. So we did do what they wanted us to do. That's my encounter on when a commercial uses a logical fallacy.
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