POSSIBLE MORAL FAILURES FALSE ARGUMENT INFORMAL FALLACY ANGRY MEN EMOTIONAL ARGUMENT FALLACY FALSE ANALOGY FALLACY SLIPPERY SLOPE FALLACY

1. Argument in the movie "Twelve Angry
Men"

2. Twelve Angry Men is a movie full of informal fallacies, which are known to be fallacious
because of their structural and content errors. Lidz (1995) claims that the main merit of
the movie is the way of showing diverse methods of possible moral failures due to “the
inability or unwillingness to think clearly, self-centeredness, failure to notice what later
seems all too obvious, etc.” Iep.utm.edu provides the following example of informal
fallacy:
the slippery slope fallacy has this form: Step 1 “leads to” step 2. Step 2 leads to step 3.
Step 3 leads to … until we reach an obviously unacceptable step, so step 1 is not
acceptable.
In the movie, the fallacy of unqualified generalization is present. A racist character hated
Pureto Ricans and made an unjustified claim that all of them are bad people. To
generalize the concept means to move from the lesser concept with more content to the
wider one, which has less content. In such a way, erroneous unqualified generalizations
are conclusions, which are arrived at from weak assumptions, and although the
premises are connected with the conclusion, they are too weak.

3. One juror makes a false argument (the fallacy of argument from ignorance) while
claiming the boy guilty simply because nobody proved otherwise. Fallacy of accident is
clear when the jury states that since eleven persons find the boy guilty, the twelfth one,
who claims his innocent, is wrong a priori. One can notice false analogy fallacy when
one of the characters invents the story to prove the kid committed the murder and adds
that if he was the boy, he would do the same. False analogy is the …
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