Emotions play a role in people's everyday lives. Either in a positive or negative way, emotions have something to with the decisions we make. According to Epstein, "An appeal to emotion in an argument with a prescriptive conlclusion can be good or can be bad. Being alert to the use of emotion helps clarify the kinds of premises needed in sich an argument, so we can more easily analyze it(p. 194)."
The type of Appeal to Emotion that strikes me is the appeal to spite because this "get even" thing happens a lot between me and my friends. We always tend to use this type of appeal whenever we are at a restaurant.
For example:
Me: Anthoni, you're paying for my food tonight.
Anthoni: Why?
Me: I paid for your food last time so you're paying for my food this time.
Or the other way around. Since we don't want to disappoint each other, we just do it to make be fair with each other.
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