Select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim. (the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states.) (more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives.) (the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside.) (the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals.) (they all should've asked for better care.) (william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care.) (if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civial war, they have no understanding of the war.)

"If people do not accept Hammond as the most important person from the Civil War, they have no understanding of the war" is an example of extreme either-or fallacy.

This type of fallacy puts forward an argument in a black-and-white fashion: the author presents a situation as if there were only two possible choices or outcomes, without considering that there may be several others.

Here, the author is saying that you either "accept Hammond as the most important person from the Civil War," or you don't understand anything about the war, which is an over-simplification.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war