The following selection was taken from a letters-to-the-editor column of a newspaper or magazine. Identify any fallacies that may be committed. (Select all that apply.)
"What's wrong with kids today? Answer: nothing, for the majority of them. They are great. Witness the action of two San Diego teenage boys recently, when the Normal Heights fire was at its worst. They took a garden hose to the roof of a threatened house—a house belonging to four elderly sisters, people they didn't even know. They saved the house, while neighboring houses burned to the ground. In the Baldwin Hills fire, two teenage girls rescued a blind, retired Navy man from sure death when they braved the flames to find him, confused, outside his burning house. He would probably have perished if they hadn't run a distance to rescue him."†
amphiboly
appeal to unqualified authority
composition
equivocation
hasty generalization
red herring
slippery slope
straw man
weak analogy
no fallacy