Non Sequitur Fallacy

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Sister Aloysius uses a black and white and non sequitur fallacy to show that school is a place that needs authority. Aloysius attempted to try to show that she outranks Sister James. She does not like ball point pens and continues to enforce their ban. Scavenging through sister James classroom, Aloysius found a ball point pen and told James that she did not want the students "writing like monkeys." They would result in writing like monkeys because it "lead to laziness." This statement is an a non sequitur fallacy. It is very clear that she has no logic or evidence to support her conclusion that it will lead to laziness. Her authority can not be trusted with unreasonable, fallacious rules, and statements. She gets away with these flawed arguments