Please consider the following passage Bill: Countries that harbor terrorists who

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Please consider the following passage Bill: Countries that harbor terrorists who want to destroy the United States must be considered enemies of the United States. Any country that does not relinquish terrorists to the American justice systems is clearly on the side of the terrorists. This sort of action means that the leaders of these countries do not wish to see justice done to the terrorists and care more about hiding murderers, rapists, thieves, and anti-democrats. Taylor: That's exactly the kind of argument that I would expect from someone who has relatives who have worked for the CIA But it seems to me that once you start labeling countries that disagree with America on policy as 'enemies", then eventually almost all countries will be considered our enemies, and we will be left with no allies. Bill: If that's the case, too bad. America stands for freedom, for democracy, and for truth. So it can stand against the world. Besides, the United States should be able to convince countries hostile to the United States of the error of their ways because our beliefs have a strong religious foundation. Taylor: Do you really think that most religious people are in favor of war? A Gallup poll last week found that 75 percent of highly religious people didn't think we should go to war with countries harboring terrorists Bill: 1 think that's an overestimate. How many people did they survey? Taylor: I'm not sure. But getting back to your original issue, the biggest problem with an tough stand against countries that harbor terrorists is that such a policy is not going to wipe out terrorism in the world Bill: Why do you keep defending the terrorists? I thought you were a patriot. Besides, this is a democracy, and most Americans agree with me Please identify the reasoning fallacies in the aforementioned passage

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Reasoning fallacies means the various flaws in reasoning while making an argument. Here in the first line when Bill said that countries which harbor terrorist wants to destroy USA is the first reasoning fallacy because the view point of the country as a whole can be different from the individuals staying in that country.

In third paragraph "So it can stand against the world", is again an reasoning fallacy as this statement is itself contrary to the view point of America's stand of freedom, democracy and truth. While this statement is about dominating other countries and superimposing pseudo-beliefs over other countries.

Not believing the facts is also a reasoning fallacy as shown in fifth para.

Seventh para also have reasoning fallacies in it when Bill misinterpreted that most of the people will agree to his viewpoints.

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