This is a category of fallacies known as “Questionable Premises”. For example, “Mike is a murderer. Therefore, Mike deserves to be punished by the law." Well, if the premise is true, then this argument holds water… but many courts have been established to investigate that premise! Without evidence, there is absolutely no reason to believe a premise we are just given, even if the easiest thing to do would be to simply accept the premise as truth. This error can be easy to spot by a