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Fallacy Exercise
Instructions: Name the fallacy in each statement below and explain why it is fallacious.
1. The best restaurant in New York City is either Buddy's Bistro or Clyde's Emporium.
2. Everyone is going to Buddy's Bistro! You have to make reservations five weeks in advance. It must be a great place!
3. I know why Buddy's Bistro is so successful! It's the lunar eclipse that happened the night they first opened.
4. I know the Buddy's Brown Buttered Buffalo Bisque isn't so great. But we have to keep it on the menu. It's been there since the beginning!
5. If we start using genetically altered potatoes at Buddy's Bistro, the next thing you know we'll be using cloned cows, and then hiring robots to serve our customers.
6. Today's prices are far too high. A couple spends $100 an hour at Buddy's Bistro, while the average salary is $10 an hour.
7. "Of course you don't like Buddy's Bistro - you're a hick from the Midwest!
8. If you want to go to Buddy's Bistro and eat the disgusting bloody ground up remains of defenseless brutally-slaughtered animals, that's fine with me! But I won't be joining you!
9. I've eaten at a couple of fancy restaurants before and didn't like the food they served. Buddys Bistro is just like the others, so I will never eat there.
10. You vegetarians complain about the meat dishes at Buddy's all the time. Well, I'll have you know that we only serve fresh Grade A beef from free-range cows fed a vegetarian diet. And the meat is prepared according to kosher tradition.
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