Colinxy: Appealing to Emotion - The Darling of the Media

If there is one informal logical fallacy that modern institutions have industrialised, weaponised, and normalised, it is the appeal to emotion (argumentum ad passiones). It is not new. The Greeks taught rhetoric precisely because they understood that human beings are not persuaded by facts, only occasionally by logic, but reliably, almost predictably, by emotion.

Two and a half millennia later, nothing has changed. What has changed is scale.