daws101
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the appeal to the masses ploy !What are you cheering for, they broke the law and assaulted the police? If you're cheering the open smoking of pot, change the law don't break the law.Black Mob Of 50 to 75 Attack Police Officers Trying To Arrest Individual For Smoking Marijuana
About time
If you're cheering the assault on police I hope you need one of these police officers soon so you will get a better appreciation for what they do. There's no sense in cheering people acting like low life thugs.
Police break the law and assault/murder people all the time and walk away from it scot-free and you people cheer it on. Who are you to judge?
Other than a few fucking retards, show some examples of people who cheer on the police breaking the law, or even cheering when they legally kill someone?
Do you REALLY want to be equivalent of ShootSpeeders here?
Argumentum ad populum
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"Ad populum" redirects here. For the Catholic liturgical term, see Versus populum.
In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition is true because many or most people believe it. In other words, the basic idea of the argument is: "If many believe so, it is so."
This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to democracy, appeal to popularity, argument by consensus, consensus fallacy, authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy, and in Latin as argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans"). It is also the basis of a number of social phenomena, including communal reinforcement and the bandwagon effect. The Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger" concerns the same idea.