Which fallacy is committed in the following statement- "I can expect that you would not find any moral issue in making abortion illegal, since your ability to feel sympathy for the rights of women in general is very limited?"
ABegging the question
BAd Hominem ✓ Correct
CHasty generalisation
DSlippery slope
Correct answer: (B) Ad Hominem
Explanation
The remark rejects the person's view by attacking their supposedly limited capacity for sympathy rather than the abortion issue itself.
Instead of engaging the argument, it targets a trait of the speaker.
Attacking the arguer rather than the argument is the mark of this fallacy.
Here the personal jab replaces any genuine reason about the moral question.
This is the ad hominem fallacy.
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