FALLACIES OF RELEVANCE

Dad to his son:

• Tony stop playing computer games!
• Daddy, please, five more minutes…
• No
• Dad, I’m begging you give me five more minutes
• Tony, I said no. You have to do your home assignments
• Dad, you want me to lose this level? I will have to restart this level again, I will lose my lives*, get upset…
• Buddy, don’t make me tell you mom that you ate that carton of ice cream
• Ah, so I’ve seen a six-pack of beer in the garage hidden behind the boxes. Mom will be happy to find it out

• Hmm, okay, you won, I give you ten more minutes and you forget about what you’d seen in the garage.
• Thank you daddy, love you!

*I’m not sure how people call those hearts at the top of the screen in games. They normally have five hearts (lives) and if they are killed in a game, they lose one heart (life).

With all love,

VeraG