As stated in the book, the content fallacy on appealing to emotion is “you should believe or do ___ because you feel ___.” To be put simply, it is using your feelings or beliefs to convince you to do or believe in something that you maybe would not normally think or do otherwise. Instead of facts, you are persuaded by your emotions. It is typically because of this that the argument would not work.
For example, the teen angst of telling someone how you feel. “You should ask him to the dance since you like him.” In those days, it was so easy for kids to push others to say or do this or that. There are a couple of things that can be wrong with that. One would be if you want to go to the dance in the first place. The other would be if you even like the guy enough, or at all, to want to spend that kind of time with him.
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