• "Our foreign policy has always helped other countries, except of course when it is against our National Interest..." :The false implication is that their foreign policy always helps other countries. The rhetorical use of the fallacy can be used to comic effect, as in the below examples: • "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health,
what have the Romans ever done for us?!" – ''
Monty Python's Life of Brian'' :The attempted implication (fallacious in this case) is that the Romans did nothing for them. • "Well, I promise the answer will always be
yes. Unless
no is required." –
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa • "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." –
My Life and Work by
Henry Ford ==See also==