For the interesting concept, I decided to discuss more of the appeal to emotion because I feel that is really important to understand how they are use in an argument to convince and manipulate people. One way that can be use to manipulate people is by appeal to pity. This method is used so many times when one wants other to help do something either for his/herself or for other things. For example, the animals shelter might talked about abused animals. The conditions that abused animals have to lived in and show pictures of injurred animals. Than the advertisement might said that you can help many abused animals by donating money and/or volunteer at an animal shelter. This is an example of appeal to pity. The advertisement make people feel sorry for the abused animals, so people will want to help these animals to improve their living conditions. I think that appeal to pity is used a lot. In many advertisement, they might not make a good argument because they usually lack the strong premises to help convince people. However, it is a good tool to manipulate people to do things.
A lot of advertisements or photos used in arguments clearly aim to get to people's emotions. I know at my job, we're doing a fundraiser for children with leukemia and the ad has photos of children with leukemia and people who donate always have emotion towards it. It manipulates people by getting their money to donate and I notice some just say no because they know that they can't get easily manipulated by schemes. I know that people get emotional more than half the time when they see abused animals because of the way the animals look Emotion is a good way to get manipulate some people to win your case.
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