Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 25

True/False

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.
[The state of Nevada has a law that allows water that is going unused in one part of the state to be claimed by parties from another part of the state. Because of growth in Las Vegas, the law has caused serious disputes over water.] "Look. We in Las Vegas aren't trying to take water from anybody else's bathtub or kitchen faucet. The water we're talking about out in rural Nevada will either come to us and be put to good use, or it'll simply go to waste."

---

Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

Discrimination

Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members.

Spontaneous Recovery

Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a conditioned response after a pause or period of apparent extinction.

Observational Learning

The process of learning behaviors by watching and imitating others.