Week 16-Post 3: Chapter 10-Too Much Emotion

The most useful or interesting concept that I found while taking this course this semester was concepts in Chapter 10: Too Much Emotion of the Epstein text. This Chapter is interesting because many people do things and believe things based on their emotions. One's emotions are very strong on their decision making abilities. Epstein states, Appeals to emotion is "an argument is just a premise that says, roughly, you should believe or do something because you feel a certain way" (191). An appeal that stood out to me is the appeal to fear. Many politicians and advertisers use this appeal to emotion to get people to do things because they put that fear in peoples brain and mentality. Appeal to fear gets people to do things that they may not want do or may affect the decisions they take based on their fear. Politicians always use appeal to fear to get votes and get people to support them. Like for instance people are scared of terrorism and a politician goes on and speaks on what he will do to stop terrorism. People will support him because this politician and others will create this fear for people to act based on their fear and emotions. Found this Chapter to be very useful and have many important concepts on appeal to emotion that are use in everyday life.