When I read through this chapter and was told to give an example of an appeal to spite one moment that I remember vividly popped into my head. My dad owns his own architecture company and he is also a volunteer firefighter on the local team so he is a well known guy around our home and neighborhood. A few years back one of my dads acquaintances came to him and asked if he would design a remodel for their bathroom for free. My dad apologized and said that he couldn’t do it for free because he had been so swamped with jobs and work so if he was going to design it he would have to charge him. The other man got very mad at my dad and reminded him of how he had once helped my dad take down a tree that was dying in our backyard, and told my dad that he should return the favor. My dad wasn’t very happy with the man's approach to the situation to say the least so my dad again apologized and said no to the man. This argument was horrible and it was not strong or valid. The man just tried to guilt my dad into doing the job for him with no real reasoning behind it. When I was reading this chapter this was the first thing to pop into my head.
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