Answer:
In debating terms, emotional appeals are often effective as a rhetorical device, but are generally considered naive or dishonest as a logical argument, since they often appeal to the prejudices of listeners rather than offer a sober assessment of a situation.
Explanation/Example:
logical fallacy: A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.
Children are more often than not toddled out as an appeal to emotion. From pictures of starving children to motivate people to give to charity to using them as any excuse to ban things that children shouldn’t even be aware of (e.g., guns), they are repeatedly paraded in front of audiences to appeal to their emotional protective instincts, often overriding anyone’s sense of rationality. “For the children” or “think of the children” as emotional appeals have been used with success in passing political motions such as Proposition Hate in California.
