Fallacy!!

Guilt by association is a common fallacy that is used in several scenarios. Guilt by association is when you attack someone on the precepts of people they associate themselves with. This happens with politicians and all the time in movies. There can be times when it isn't actually a fallacy and possibly a good resource. For example, someone is charged with killing someone in a gang and it is brought up that the killer associated himself with a rival gang. This information can be very useful but it is commonly misused and it is fallen for. If I pay close attention to debates, I will probably catch a lot of fallacies including guilt by association. This might not be the best example but Romney was commonly attacked since he aligned himself with the LDS religion. People thought he was gonna be some crazy president who would force religion but obviously that was just the media using fallacies to scare people away from voting for him. i just feel like guilt by association is everywhere because it works so well with uneducated audiences and even with educated audiences. What if a politician aligned himself with the Westboro Baptist Church at one time in his life? There would be so much disgust by voters that they wouldn't even pay attention to his politics. Its a useful strategy if it is used correctly but can cause the source to lose credibility if used in the wrong way. So, that is my blog!