Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 94

Essay

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.
From a defense attorney's closing remarks at a trial: "This young man isn't guilty of a crime. No, ladies and gentlemen, it's society that's guilty of a crime, a crime against the very person on trial here. The society that wants to send him to prison for half his life is the same society that produced the rotten neighborhood in which he was born and grew up, that saw to it that he got a fifth-rate education, that gave him pimps and drug dealers for role models, and that offered him the choice between street crime or jobs nobody else would take. This jury-you-can do something to right the wrong that has been done to this young man...."

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Definitions:

Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction

An adverse reaction following a blood transfusion where the patient's immune system attacks the transfused red blood cells causing them to break down.

Nonhemolytic Febrile Reaction

A transfusion reaction characterized by fever and chills, without hemolysis, typically occurring during or shortly after a blood product transfusion.

Acute Hemolytic

A rapid breakdown of red blood cells, leading to symptoms like jaundice and anemia.

Clotting Factors

Proteins in the blood that are essential for the clotting process, helping to stop bleeding by forming clots.