Appeal to Spite

3). Pick one concept, idea or exercise from the assigned reading, that we have no already discussed, that you found useful or interesting, and discuss it.

I found appeal to spite interesting in chapter 10 this week. The book describes it as “the hope of revenge”.It is where a person tries to justify doing something wrong to another person because they have done something wrong to you before. I never thought of this as an argument before. However, the book broke it down and explained why it is an argument. It is an argument because a person is justifying why he or she is doing something wrong to another person. For example, I won’t remind my roommate to empty her trash on Wednesday so the garbage man gets it because she didn’t remind me last week and I forgot. In this sense, I am justifying why I won’t help her out and remind her. It is an argument.This can also work by telling another person not to do something for another person because he or she wasn’t helped by that person in the past. Appeal to spite seems like it starts a huge chain of reactions that carries from one person to the next and down the line.