Assignment task:
Determine which fallacies occur in the following passage : During the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. government placed a value on human lives that suffered wrongful deaths caused by the U.S. military and made "condolence payments" to family members. They did the same for Americans killed in al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001. Here are some statistics on the worth of human life taken from "A Scale for the Price of Life," by Tom Engelhardt (San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2007). A civilian killed in Haditha, Iraq, by U.S. Marines: $2,500. A civilian killed near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by U.S. Marines: $2,000. A civilian killed by al Qaeda terrorists on September 11: $1.8 million.