Question

"Every year for the past 200 years it has been a tradition at this university with this fraternity to leave our clothes behind and try to survive in the wilderness in winter for 10 days." So what if a few of our members get frostbite and have to have their toes amputated. With the powerful history behind this activity, it lets each of our members participate in something bigger than himself, toes or not!" Which fallacy is this?

Answer 1

Answer: Faulty appeal to tradition

Explanation: The appeal to tradition fallacy (known as appeal to common practice) is a kind of fallacy which occurs when a person claims that an action or belief must be true.

The appeal to tradition fallacy is based on a false assumption that if something has been done a particular way for a long time, or traditionally, it is necessarily the proper way of doing it.