Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Objective #6
On page 195, the book lists numerous exercises for chapter 10. I chose #6: Give an example of an appeal to spite that invokes what someone believes. Is it a good argument? An advertisement or political speech that i can identify nowadays is the Meg Whitman ads on television. One commercial shows her being a plagiarizer because she is stealing Arnold Swartzeneggar's words. Every line she said, the television would show Arnold saying the same thing in his campaign to be governor. Other political person's like Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, etc. are all making commercials in which it shows their opponent and what wrong they can do to the economy if we pick them. It leaves us in a question about what to do in these kinds of situations because, if we pick one, then we will have to endure the consequences for picking that person. For example, there is a commercial about Jerry Brown raising taxes when he was mayor of Oakland. All these ads that come out are appeals to spite from other people running for campaigns because they will so anything to humiliate their opponent to win.
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Very cool of you to use the Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown campaign in your example for appeal to spite.I used these campaign ads in my examples as well since Whitman and Brown both attacked each other ethics. However, being that electing the next governor of our state, it is hard to choose between the lesser of two evils. Whitman is seen has being a right-wing republican with a similar agenda to Arizona and Brown's old agenda is being used to attack him, all in the name of appeal to spite.
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