In any forum for discussion, whether written or verbal, logical fallacies are thrown around like leaves in the wind. I've always enjoyed the study of fallacies, particularly logical ones. The most commmon on TFP seem to be straw man, non sequitur, false dilemma, ad hominem and of course, appeal to emotion.
So my question to you all is which logical fallacies you hate most, and why. And in the sense of fairness, which fallacies you are most guilty of using.
I personally despite appeals to emotion, becuase I'm not a very emotional person and it makes the argument feel like very overt manipulation. I prefer to keep emotion out of rational discussions, and someone who brings an emotional argument to a reasonable debate immediately loses my respect. I also dislike Ad hominem, but I think that it's only inevitable. It seems the most commonly abused of the fallacies.
I will admit that I'm probably most guilty of using straw man and slippery slope fallacies, as I often (unconciously) connect their decision with what I percieve the long-term ramifications to be (slippery slope) or to something totally unrelated (straw man).
What about you?
(Included a list of Fallacies from Wikipedia for reference)
List of fallacies
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem" title="Ad hominem">Ad hominem</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes" title="And you are lynching Negroes">And you are lynching Negroes</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_probability" title="Appeal to probability">Appeal to probability</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion">Appeal to emotion</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_setting_a_precedent" title="Argument from setting a precedent">Argument from setting a precedent</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_assertion_fallacy" title="Bare assertion fallacy">Bare assertion fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_%28logical_fallacy%29" title="Burden of proof (logical fallacy)">Burden of proof (logical fallacy)</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability" title="Conditional probability">Conditional probability</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy" title="Conjunction fallacy">Conjunction fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy" title="Continuum fallacy">Continuum fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlative-based_fallacies" title="Correlative-based fallacies">Correlative-based fallacies</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definist_fallacy" title="Definist fallacy">Definist fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_correlative" title="Denying the correlative">Denying the correlative</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_counting_%28fallacy%29" title="Double counting (fallacy)">Double counting (fallacy)</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak_argument" title="Doublespeak argument">Doublespeak argument</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy" title="Ecological fallacy">Ecological fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy" title="Etymological fallacy">Etymological fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy" title="Fallacy">Fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_distribution" title="Fallacy of distribution">Fallacy of distribution</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_many_questions" title="Fallacy of many questions">Fallacy of many questions</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_misplaced_concreteness" title="Fallacy of misplaced concreteness">Fallacy of misplaced concreteness</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_context" title="Fallacy of quoting out of context">Fallacy of quoting out of context</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_attribution" title="False attribution">False attribution</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma" title="False dilemma">False dilemma</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_premise" title="False premise">False premise</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_reductionism" title="Greedy reductionism">Greedy reductionism</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect" title="Halo effect">Halo effect</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian%27s_fallacy" title="Historian's fallacy">Historian's fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fallacy" title="Historical fallacy">Historical fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument" title="Homunculus argument">Homunculus argument</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey" title="If-by-whiskey">If-by-whiskey</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete_comparison" title="Incomplete comparison">Incomplete comparison</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsistent_comparison" title="Inconsistent comparison">Inconsistent comparison</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_regress" title="Infinite regress">Infinite regress</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy" title="Informal fallacy">Informal fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_proof" title="Invalid proof">Invalid proof</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgmental_language" title="Judgmental language">Judgmental language</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies" title="List of fallacies">List of fallacies</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masked_man_fallacy" title="Masked man fallacy">Masked man fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaningless_statement" title="Meaningless statement">Meaningless statement</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_ground" title="Middle ground">Middle ground</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchhausen-Trilemma" title="Munchhausen-Trilemma">Munchhausen-Trilemma</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_proof" title="Negative proof">Negative proof</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy" title="Nirvana fallacy">Nirvana fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman" title="No true Scotsman">No true Scotsman</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29" title="Non sequitur (logic)">Non sequitur (logic)</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-deal_fallacy" title="Package-deal fallacy">Package-deal fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_of_horribles" title="Parade of horribles">Parade of horribles</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy" title="Pathetic fallacy">Pathetic fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_solution_fallacy" title="Perfect solution fallacy">Perfect solution fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_attack" title="Personal attack">Personal attack</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">Poisoning the well</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_%28literary_and_historical_analysis%29" title="Presentism (literary and historical analysis)">Presentism (literary and historical analysis)</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion" title="Proof by assertion">Proof by assertion</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_example" title="Proof by example">Proof by example</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_verbosity" title="Proof by verbosity">Proof by verbosity</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor%27s_fallacy" title="Prosecutor's fallacy">Prosecutor's fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist%27s_fallacy" title="Psychologist's fallacy">Psychologist's fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_fallacy" title="Regression fallacy">Regression fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_%28fallacy%29" title="Reification (fallacy)">Reification (fallacy)</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativist_fallacy" title="Relativist fallacy">Relativist fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_determinism" title="Retrospective determinism">Retrospective determinism</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship" title="Spurious relationship">Spurious relationship</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_over_substance_fallacy" title="Style over substance fallacy">Style over substance fallacy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_correlative" title="Suppressed correlative">Suppressed correlative</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger" title="Three men make a tiger">Three men make a tiger</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_objections" title="Trivial objections">Trivial objections</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness" title="Truthiness">Truthiness</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_repugnance" title="Wisdom of repugnance">Wisdom of repugnance</a>