Appealing to emotion i feel is a very strong tactic that one can use when in an argument. You can make people feel bad in order to agree with you but at the same time appeal to emotion can be a bad thing for your argument. The aspect of appealing to spite was interesting to me because it showed how it can make your argument worse. Appealing to spite is basically letting revenge cloud your judgement.
One example could be.
Me: I am going to vote for George for class president because he is the best qualified.
John: Why would you vote for him? He copied from your paper and made you fail your math class.
Me: your right, im not going to vote for him, i am going to vote for Steve.
This is a bad argument because all im doing is changing my vote in order to get even with George.
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