Tuesday, January 29, 2008
logical fallacy
From watching the movie PCU I learned that the way college life is percieved is very different from the way college life actually is. One primary example that I found interesting during the movie was the part when there was a group of people protesting not to eat red meat that red meat is murder, and then the people that stayed in the pit went up to the top of this building and started throwing all sorts of meat down at the protesters. I thought to myself that there is no way people in college would do anything like this and get away with it. The part of the movie we watched in class seemed so exaggerated. The movie was very funny but overall it did not show what college life really is about. This logical fallacy would be "Red Herring."
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I completely agree with your view on the movie, PCU. It was very exaggerated and dramtic. Unfortunately,the majority of college movies out there are exaggerated. Hollywood tends to only focus on the negative aspects of college or the things that interest young people, like sex and alcohol.These are the things that America sees as entertainment, but it provides an altered view into college life.
A red herring is a metaphor for a diversion or distraction from an original objective.
What was the argument then? And how did the meat throwing distract from that argument?
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