Prompt #3, something we have not discussed yet

Appeal to pity is an argument tactic that I see a lot in this day in age. Appeal to pity is the general idea of using someone's emotions to help influence an argument. Appeal to emotion works in a variety of way, but appeal to fear is much more specific. Appeal to fear uses someone or somethings current condition to make you feel a certain way. Usually, the person making the argument will try to connect your feeling of pity to an argument, and much of the time, a monetary donation. Although it is often a monetary donation, the arguing party may also be seeking non-monetary donations and votes. This is something that is especially relevant to our current situation. Over the past few months, we have had many disasters in places such as American Samoa, the Philippines, and Haiti. These areas have suffered intense, unthinkable damage and desperately need money and supplies to get them up and running again. I do, however, believe that many organizations collecting for these funds use appeal to pity. They make you feel that if you do not donate, you are heartless. They flaunt pictures of the rubble, starving children, and corpses in your face in order to appeal to your emotion. I personally feel that this is wrong, and although these organizations truly need the money and supplies they are requesting, they are going about it the wrong way. This style of unfairly connecting an issue with a desired action is often misused.