When responding to an article, it is logical to assume that one would like to come off as intelligent and well-spoken. This is difficult to achieve when fallacies are apparent in many varying fashions throughout the response. Fallacies have the effect of weakening a statement by simply making the writer appear uneducated. In the letter to editor entitled, “Ten Commandments shouldn’t be in schools” which appears in The Pantagraph, there are many different examples …showed first 75 words of 861 total…

…showed last 75 words of 861 total…severely weakened by the multiple fallacies contained throughout the article. The author’s credibility is shattered because of the way the response was written and unfortunately that makes any point stressed in the article difficult to accept. Without the abundant fallacies strewn throughout the response, the author’s argument would have carried significantly more merit. However, the manor in which this response is written forces the reader to absorb the fallacies, rather than the message.