Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 63

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.
This river has been changing its course every couple of years for the past few thousand years. Now they've decided that the banks need to be stabilized. Who does the Army Corps of Engineers think it is to come in here and decide they know something Mother Nature doesn't?

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