Faulty Comparison
A faulty comparison is when you compare two things that are not logically relevant to each other so that you can make one of those things look better. If the comparison is between two things that are superficially related, your audience might not notice the logical error.
Example
Bottled water is excellent for your health and the environment! It has less sugar than soda pop, and has the lowest carbon footprint of any bottled beverage.
Famous Examples
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If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.
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No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses - one vaccine at a time, over time.
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If a frog turns into a prince instantaneously, we call that miracle or a fairy tale. But, if that frog turns into a prince very slowly, taking three to four hundred million years to make the transition, we will teach that in our universities as scientific fact.
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In all, about 250,000 deaths annually are attributable to medication errors made by traditional practitioners of medicine. The ones the Obama FTC isn't interested in regulating.
Homeopathic medicine has no similar record of death.
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John Bennett: Let me ask you something. You don't think she's gonna be expecting something big, do you?
Ted: What, like anal?
John Bennett: No! Like, a fucking circular gold thing on her finger?
Ted: Oh, fuck that! It's been four years, Johnny. You and me have been together for twenty seven years. Where's my ring?
Context: Ted (film)
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