Trent Schwartz
The main argument of the video from PragerU was that contrary to popular belief, socialism makes people more selfish than capitalism does. The idea expressed in the video was that when people are given free things such as free healthcare or free college tuition, they gain the mindset that they are entitled to everything. It is proposed that as people start receiving more and more things from the government, they will become lazy and greedy. The video proposed that capitalism teaches people how to work for their own money and not rely on the government for assistance. The video did not bring forth any evidence to support its claim.
The speaker in the video does not use a single piece of evidence to support his claims. The logical fallacies used in the video were slippery slope and straw man. The slippery slope example is when the speaker says that if people receive free healthcare, they will eventually never leave home because they get welfare and not have to work. The straw man example is that the speakers says that when President Obama spoke at a University and said that now people will be able to be on their parent’s health insurance plan until the age of 26. The speaker then says that the reply from the audience was thunderous and enthusiastic and that if the President had instead said that there was a cure for cancer that there would be much less applause. The speaker does not attempt to establish himself as a reliable and trustworthy source in the video. Instead, the video is intended to anger its audience about young people by saying that they want free stuff and will not work for their own things.
PragerU “Why Socialism Never Works”
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