2 . Dr . Dre says that violent video games are okay . 3 . Everybody knows that violent video games don ’ t cause problems .
4 . Many countries banned violent video games and they have higher crime rates than we do .
And the errors they represent might be :
1 . Children have always played violent games and they turned out okay ( appeal to tradition and false analogy ).
2 . Dr . Dre says that violent video games are okay ( argument by mistaken authority ).
3 . Everybody knows that violent video games don ’ t cause problems ( appeal to common belief ).
4 . Many countries banned violent video games and they have higher crime rates than we do ( post hoc ergo propter hoc ).
Because
1 . Any sentence that talks about how we have always done something as a way to justify doing it is an appeal to tradition .
2 . The claim looks like it comes from an authority , but Dr . Dre is a musician , not a doctor .
3 . Any claim that says that everyone knows something as a way to justify doing it is an appeal to common belief .
4 . Showing that two things happened ( that video games are accepted and crime is up ) does not prove that the two things are related or