Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 112

Short Answer

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.
Letter to the editor: "In rejoinder to your July 21 editorial, I certainly don't see how you can criticize the striking Springfield Unified School District teachers who carried their own signs. Let us not forget that you endorsed and supported city council members Holt and Donazetti, who not only paraded up and down Main Street with their own placards, but also got young children out of school to parade with them."
-North State Record

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Definitions:

Legal Value

Consideration or benefit recognized by law as sufficient to form a valid contract or enforceable obligation.

Gross Inadequacy

An extreme lack of sufficiency or competence in performance or provision, often referenced in legal contexts concerning contractual or fiduciary obligations.

Bilateral Contract

A type of contract that involves two parties where each party makes a promise to the other.

Consideration

Something of value (such as an object, money, service, or promise) that is given by a party to induce another to enter into a contract.