Gandhi Too Does Fallacies

Mahatma Gandhi lived years ago but he was certainly more advanced than any of the leaders that exist now a days. His way out was peace, and if a country like Colombia would have had a leader like him maybe all the wars and all the controversy would have never existed.

Anyways, just pointing that out.

Even if fallacies can make the referee whistle, there is still many cases in which you can use them wisely. Even Gandhi uses them in his most famous speech in Kingsley Hall 1931. 

He uses one, which is recurrent throughout, the whole speech. He appeals to popularity. God. God is the maximum authority and he legitimizes our beliefs by talking about how important God is in life.

He includes in a very sincere manner that he is able to also manipulate the audience but in a very smooth way. They are even so smooth that there are very hard to find, it was like a puzzle really. He is very true to what he says this is why you aren’t able to find so many, his purpose wasn’t to manipulate the audience, he wanted the audience to trust and believe in what he was saying.

He said things like: “That law then which governs all life is God.” Also, “God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.”

He starts of with many questions in where he gives a conclusion to prove his conclusion. “We know that people do not know who rules or why and how He rules and yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules.”

People in fact don’t know who is ruling, but they know that someone is. He gives a statement in which he also conclude later.

He uses the many questions and the tautology in a way, he repeates the premise but he is also making a conclusion and then he gives his reason for the conclusion “acceptance of divine authority makes life's journey easier even as the acceptance of earthly rule makes life under it easier.”

It is incredible but even Gandhi did use fallacies, we don’t realize but they are an important part of our life because we use and hear a lot of them constantly.