Determining the standard form of the argument in various situations.
What is the standard form of the argument in each of the below cases?
A. Women live longer than men, on the average. So, you will probably live longer than your husband!
B. Subliminal advertising is quite common. Why? Hundreds of studies have shown that subliminal persuasion works. You end up buying things you neither want nor need: like a singing, flipping fish on a board!
C. You should believe in God. If God doesn't exist, then all you've lost is a few Sunday mornings at church. But if God does exist, then you have gained eternal bliss!
D. It would be foolish to permit the sale of marijuana to seriously ill people on the recommendation of their physicians. That just opens the floodgates to the complete legalization of that dangerous drug.
E. "Women have rights," said the Bullfight Association president, "But women shouldn't fight bulls because a bullfighter is and should be a man."
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