I've encountered a logical fallacy a few times in my life. The most memorable one was a false dilemma proposed to me by a friend. My friend and I were discussing sexual orientations. He told me a person is either heterosexual or homosexual. There is no other option and if the person is questioning, they are probably homosexual. I didn't know there were other types of orientations, but I started to question his logic and decided to look it up.
The research process quickly brought up about nine different sexual orientations. Four main ones, are the most known throughout society. The other five don't involve gender and focus on qualities such as a person's personality. This brought me to the conclusion that was I was told was a lie. Logical fallacies are the product of racism, discrimination, or just people who are misinformed about a topic. This type of logical fallacy, false dilemma, is usually based on a person's opinion. You could probably tell it was a false dilemma when the person said that the only choices were either A or B.
My first conclusion was that my friend was discriminatory towards homosexuals. I, of course, did some more testing to come to a sensible conclusion. I asked him questions and dug deeper into his thought process. What I found is that he was actually homophobic. This friend frequently tried to prove his heterosexuality and pushed away the options of being homosexual. He hissed at the thought of it (not literally of course). My final conclusion was that homophobic people were probably not the most reliable source when talking about sexual orientations.
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