This has always bothered me, because I can think of instance where bad behaviors can definetly lead to worst behaviors. The classic, if you smoke pot you’ll use harder drugs, is clearly not true in itself. Weed doesn’t cause you to want to do harder drugs, but since weed is illegal in a lot of places, it could expose you to hard drugs and you could become a user. I understand that this is not always the case, but I’d like to better understand why this is considered a fallacy when it could be true sometimes.
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Any time you encounter an argument that seems to look like an informal fallacy it should give you pause. But a common mistake people make with informal fallacies is that once they seem to perceive one, they don’t inquire further. Knowing a type of fallacy exists acts as a warning that a person may be engaging in fallacious reasoning, but if they can explain themselves sufficiently then it may not be.
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